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Written by a collection of eminent researchers, this study takes a detailed look at African prisons, and examines how regional and international legal instruments have dealt with human rights concerns such as overcrowding, health care, pretrial detention, and the treatment of women and children. Providing concrete examples as well as theory, it analyzes human rights needs, developments, and policies, and makes recommendations as to how situations can be improved.
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Jeremy Sarkin is a senior professor of law at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and has served as an acting judge in the Cape High Court in South Africa. His previous books are The Administration of Justice: Comparative Perspectives; Carrots and Sticks: The TRC and the South African Amnesty Process; Human Rights, the Citizen and the State: South African and Irish Perspectives; and Reconciliation in Transitional Societies: Finding Common Ground.
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Human Rights in African Prisons
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Human Sciences Research Council, 2008
ISBN 10: 0796922063
ISBN 13: 9780796922069
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