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Jun 15, 2020 · This is Ruth Hopkins’ crisp opening to her book, The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in A South African Private Prison.
Feb 18, 2021 · But that’s exactly where journalist Ruth Hopkins has spent her last decade. Hopkins delved into the violence visited upon inmates, including the bureaucratic indifference they are subjected to by institutions falling under — in an Orwellian twist — the Department of Correctional Services.
Sep 20, 2023 · South Africa pays foreign contractors billions of rand to run and maintain private prisons. Recent events suggest it may be the next arms deal, writes investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins.
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Apr 3, 2023 · Ruth Hopkins’s brave and extraordinary book, The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison is an exposé of Mangaung Prison, a privatised prison, run by G4S, the largest security firm in the world.
Apr 12, 2023 · Ruth Hopkins is an investigative journalist who recently wrote a book – The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison – about G4S, a British multinational private security company running the Mangaung prison.
Jul 13, 2020 · Ruth Hopkins is an award-winning investigative journalist. She worked as a journalist with the Wits Justice Project in Johannesburg from 2012 to 2018, producing content about wrongful convictions, lengthy remand detention, police brutality and various other criminal justice issues.
