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Exposé of prison brutality by someone who cares

I’VE NEVER met Ruth Hopkins. After reading her riveting exposé, The Misery Merchants, there’s an indelible bond. She champions the underdog without judging them. Be they murderers, rapists and robbers, they’re entitled to human rights, like anyone.

Inside Mangaung Prison in Bloemfontein lurks a toxic cocktail of violence and lies choreographed by the global Goliath that is

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