Apartheid's Prison

Abstract

Background: Perhaps I should clarify what this input is and is not. I was asked to talk about my prison experiences. This is therefore not a detached, criminological or penological analysis of the character of political imprisonment in South Africa. It is what I have experienced myself. But I try to combine the personal with some reflection on what it has meant over and above how I experienced it. This paper is constructed mainly from extracts out of my forthcoming book, In Apartheid's Prison.