Abstract

REDPATH, Jean. Unsustainable and unjust: Criminal justice policy and remand detention since 1994. SA crime q. [online]. 2014, n.48, pp.25-37. ISSN 2413-3108.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sacq.v48i1.3.

The 'tough on crime' approach embodied in bail and sentencing law has had a profound impact on the trends around remand detention, including prison overcrowding of such an extent that it is estimated to have contributed to an additional 8 500 natural deaths in custody. Ultimately the policies have led, in practice, to an 'Alice in Wonderland' effect: fewer people are being tried and sentenced, while more than ever are denied their freedom without ever being tried in a court of law.

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