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In 2020, independent investigative journalist and author, Ruth Hopkins wrote 'The Misery Merchants', a hard-hitting exposé of G4S, the company running a private prison in Mangaung. This is the same high security facility that 'Facebook rapist' Thabo Bester would escape from two years later.
Investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins has called for an inquiry into alleged collusion between South African prison authorities.
Investigative journalist, Ruth Hopkins, exposes the implications of convicted rapist Thabo Bester's escape from privately-run SA prison.
Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce accountability.
Ruth Hopkins’ book, The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison, tells the shocking story of Mangaung Prison. 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. Hopkins’s story of a broken prison, in which prisoners were forcibly given anti-psychotic drugs and tortured with electric shock ‘therapy’, also details the flow of money in and out of the prison, the links with MPs, and the sh...