Fast Facts no 06 - June 2011

Contents:

• Justice
  Democracy is supposed to make for accountability. But accountability is clearly absent as regards the polic e, the pris on, and our faltering criminal courts.
• Police
  Few penalties for police abuses.
• Police
  Charges laid against members of the South African Police Service and proportion of charges ending in conviction, 2009/10.
• Prisons
  ‘Shockin gly inhumane ’ tre atment of many awaiting-trial prisoners.
• Prisons
  New rules for remand detainees.
• Corruption
  Lessons from the Glenister judgment.
• Fast Stats