Ruth Hopkins worked for the Wits Justice Project at Wits University in Johannesburg for 7 years. She investigated G4S-run Mangaung Prison in Bloemfontein while working for the WJP. She is currently writing a book about that prison investigation and collaborating with Femke and Ilse on a documentary film. Ruth is the coordinator of the PSN.
British multinational security company G4S wants the high court in Pretoria to suppress evidence that could reveal widespread torture and abuse of prisoners at its Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein.
British security firm G4S, which runs Bloemfontein’s Mangaung prison, has denied lawyers access to a prisoner who claims to have been shot in the head with a rubber bullet by a warder.
Inmates say they were given electric shocks and forcibly injected at the multinational security company’s Mangaung Correctional Centre, writes Ruth Hopkins.