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Parole in South Africa is governed by the Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998, together with a series of amendments and a body of Constitutional ...

In South African law, remission is the shortening of a sentence of imprisonment that a court has already imposed. It reduces the total period a ...

When South Africans talk about “amnesty for prisoners”, they are usually referring to one of two distinct legal mechanisms: special remission of sentence announced by ...

Remission and amnesty are two of the most misunderstood concepts in South African criminal justice. Both can shorten the time a person spends in a ...

“Rule 35” is one of the most misunderstood terms in South African criminal law. People often arrive at our Sandton office asking how to launch ...

South African criminal law does not run a catalogue of branded “sentence reduction programmes” sold by outside providers. What actually reduces the time a sentenced ...

A criminal sentence is not always the final word. South African law gives a sentenced person several distinct routes to have a sentence reduced, converted ...

In South African law, parole is the conditional release of a sentenced prisoner from a correctional centre after a portion of the sentence has been ...

Parole in South Africa is not a single, automatic process. It is a set of placement decisions made under the Correctional Services Act 111 of ...