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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.

  • G4S
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Torture
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Prison Company Stalls Court Actions

By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA

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.

  • G4S
  • Torture
  • ZA

Tortured Mangaung Prisoners Seek Justice

By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA

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.

  • G4S
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Torture
  • ZA

G4S Snared By Torture Allegations At Bloemfontein Jail

By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA

Inmates say they were given electric shocks and forcibly injected at the multinational security company’s Mangaung Correctional Centre, writes Ruth Hopkins.

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