Life behind bars in South Africa
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Mark Thatcher, in court over a coup plot, has built a new life amid the millionaires&#39; mansions of Constantia. Raymond Whitaker reports.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - Crime-ridden,  snarled with traffic and studded with architectural eyesores,  Johannesburg is not a classic holiday spot.
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ELGIN VALLEY, South Africa -- When South Africa held its first fully democratic elections in 1994, Patrick Kraukamp, a day laborer, was just starting a job as a forklift driver at the Paul Cluver wine estate in this lush mountain valley.
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Besieged by Tamil   Tiger artillery fire and surrounded by 40,000 troops in what   must be the world's most heavily guarded jail, hard time has   taken on a new meaning for jailbirds in north Sri Lanka.
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MUHANGA, Rwanda  - For a decade, Beata Uwitije never slept in her own bed at home. It was always a police cell, an alleyway, a bar or one of her client's homes.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely  than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty,  unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the  number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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South Africa's high levels of crime are continuing to deter foreign investors, a business group warns.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2 -- A series of attacks on prominent South Africans, including entertainers, business leaders and a renowned historian, has pushed a contentious, racially charged debate over crime to the center of the country's political agenda as lawmakers begin their new parliamentary year in...
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By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and David Blair, Africa Correspondent. Simon Mann, an old Etonian and former SAS officer, stood expressionless in khaki prison fatigues yesterday as he was sentenced to seven years
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An attempted escape at Boksburg prison in Johannesburg of South Africa has been thwarted and the warders held hostage have been freed, a warder said on Monday.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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A film describing the effect Nelson Mandela had on a prison warden is shown at the Berlin Film Festival.
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The Center for Employment Opportunities provides former convicts living in New York City with temporary jobs.
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The escape of a notorious jail-breaker has led to calls to overhaul Belgium's prison system.
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A Leeds man released from a Pakistani jail after 18 years on death row talks about his experiences.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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Chicago Tribune - In the 1980s, while in jail on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela wrote a letter to the wife of one of his prison guards. In it, he said he respected her husband, Christo Brand, as a man of integrity. But he was concerned that Brand, an Afrikaner, didn't understand the value of education.