Not too 'Great Expectations': considering the right to health care in prisons and its constitutional implementation
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2009
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South African Journal of Criminal Justice
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University of Cape Town
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Recently a doctor at Pollsmoor prison was dismissed from his employment where he had been a medical doctor for 10 years, after blowing the whistle on the 'chronic situation in the delivery of health care in Pollsmoor.' He claimed that there was a healthcare crisis typified by chronic understaffing and a lack of any form of disease control. This paper seeks to take a close look at the provision of health care in South Africa's prisons.
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Barnes, J. (2009). Not too'Great Expectations': considering the right to health care in prisons and its constitutional implementation. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 22(1), 39-68.