Despite promises to abolish solitary confinement in mental healthcare by 2020, there were nearly 8,800 confinements, usually in isolation cells, last year. That is an increase of almost 10 percent ...
The court's first judgment came out that keeping correctional facility inmates in solitary confinement for a long time for violating internal regulations is a ...
Mthobisi Prince Mncube and Fisokuhle Ntuli have turned to the Pretoria high court on an urgent basis, seeking to be removed from solitary confinement with immediate effect.