Reform of parole policy in South Africa — fact or fiction? – The Mail & Guardian

Reform of parole policy in South Africa — fact or fiction? – The Mail & Guardian

The debate on the possibilities and challenges of parole and rehabilitation in South Africa immediately brings to mind the words of Pat Carlen, former editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Criminology, that “[t]he concept of rehabilitation, by contrast, has been and still is exclusively focused upon the crimes of the poor and the powerless […]  and [has very little to do with] those presently filling the prisons and who have never had anythi…