"For too long prisons have been regarded as breeding grounds of criminality, places of punitive authoritarianism and backwaters of everything despised by society. They also represented a microcosm of a divided country, racked by racial segregation and discrimination, as well as repressive measures such as solitary confinement and violent interrogation.
It took the political metamorphosis of 1994 to introduce the first steps along the path of respect for human life and human dignity. The transformation programme of this country’s first democratic government necessitated that prisons shift from institutions of derision to places of new beginnings. "
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| Michael Subotzky |
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