Resources
DJF members regularly produce comprehensive materials on a wide range of detention-related issues. We encourage you to view and download our training materials and guides, research reports, presentations, and factsheets.
Click on the links below to download or view our trainings and educational materials, developed by DJF members for the purpose of providing useful information and user-friendly guides to relevant stakeholders – including civil society organizations, the Department of Correctional Services, current and formerly incarcerated persons, and other interested individuals.
- Let’s end it now! Stopping sexual violence in correctional centres: a resource for correctional staff (2010)
- Addressing HIV and Sexual Violence in Correctional Facilities: a guide for correctional staff (2012)
- Information on Rape and Sexual Abuse in Remand & Correctional Facilities (2016)
- One Judge One Jail: a guide for judges (2017)
- One Judge One Jail Inspection Toolkit
- I Wish I Had Known: a guide for parolees (2018)
- I Wish I Had Known: a guide for parolees (Afrikaans)
- I Wish I Had Known: a guide for parolees (Zulu)
Click on the links to download or view research reports developed by DJF members.
- Comparative Prison Oversight Report (2019)
- Out of sight: Addressing sexual violence in South African prisons (2018)
- Pollsmoor: Reducing overcrowding in a South African Remand Detention Facility (2018)
- By the Grace of God Report: Staffing Correctional Centers (2016)
- In Their Boots: Staff Perspectives on Violence Behind Bars (2015)
- The Role and Functioning of Visitor’s Committees of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (2014)
- Evaluation of SA’s Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (2013)
- Hard Times: Women’s Pathways to Crime and Incarceration (2012)
- Legal Framework to Prevent HIV and Sexual Violence in SA Correctional Facilities (2012)
Click on the links to download or view presentations made by DJF members on oversight of detention for the prevention of torture:
- Factsheet – Why is prison oversight important
- Factsheet – Why should we care about prisoners
- Factsheet – End sexual violence in prison now
- Factsheet – Why should we care about overcrowding in prison
- Factsheet – One Judge One Jail