Submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Correctional Services

The Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit (GHJRU) at the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Health Sciences welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Annual Reports 2012/2013 of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS). As reflected in the reports, very little is known or documented about the lives of women in South African correctional centres, and their needs and experiences are often invisible, or assumed to be the same as the wider male population’s.
The GHJRU recently published research on the reasons why women come into conflict with the law and are incarcerated. The findings of this research are detailed in Hard Time(s): Women’s Pathways to Crime and Incarceration (Artz, L. et al. 2012). This research was approved by and presented to the Department of Correctional Services in 2012.

Publisher: University of Cape Town
Year of Publication: 2013
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