Policeman Shane Naidoo, left, leads Thabo Bester from holding cells in Durban.
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Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce accountability.
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China has been very successful at crime control while South Africa has neglected rehabilitation and failed dismally at resettling ex-offenders.
An inmate busy in the woodwork area of The Leeuwkop Correctional Facility.
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One way to break the cycles that return offenders to prison is through the way society treats ex-offenders, providing them with basic human needs such as employment.
Stigmatising and shaming ex-offenders hampers efforts to reintegrate them into society.
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Politicians’ knee jerk dismissal of an idea that could help rehabilitate ex-offenders is
unhelpful.