Apartheid's Alcatraz: The Barberton Prison Complex During the Early 1980s - Part One

The purpose of this two-part article is to examine in detail the public discourse surrounding the Barberton Prison Complex during the early 1980s, at the height of the apartheid era. The prisons within the Barberton Prison Complex were notorious as being among the most punitive of the many prisons w...

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Published in:	Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
Main Author:	Stephen Allister Peté
Format:	Article
Language:	Afrikaans
Published:	North-West University 2015-07-01
Subjects:	Barberton Prison Complex Barberton Prison Farm prison violence apartheid prisons prison deaths prison torture prisoner heat exhaustion heat exhaustion trial
Online Access:	http://www.nwu.ac.za/sites/www.nwu.ac.za/files/files/p-per/issuepages/2015volume18no2/2015%2818%292Pet%C3%A91%28ART%29.pdf

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