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A friend of the court, Free Market Foundation, argued that the application of hate speech law has become inconsistent and undermines equality before the law.

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Workshops held with Bishop Lavis police to improve service delivery to the community

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Cape Town – Following concerns raised last month by the Bishop Lavis Community Police Forum on the police stations’ poor service delivery, Nicro (SA National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders) has responded by facilitating workshops with police officials from the two stations.

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Young people need early intervention to avoid a life of criminality

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Cape Town – As the nation reflects on the countless issues facing the youth, an organisation that works with rehabilitating criminal offenders has revealed that youth make up the bulk of the clients they service.

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Nicro gets flak from correctional services after call to reduce the cost of prisoners

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Cape Town – The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has pushed back at a call by the SA National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (Nicro) to partner-up and create sustainable interventions to reduce the cost of imprisonment.

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Nicro welcomes KZN Liquor Authority blitz operations but says underlying risk factors for crime, violence must be tackled

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Nicro was commenting after the KwaZulu-Natal Liquor Authority (KZNLA) announced that it has shut down 18 illegal liquor outlets and seized thousands of litres of alcohol in Pietermaritzburg, uMlazi and Empangeni.

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‘Nicro programme helped me turn my life around’

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When Arcadia resident Elton Minto found himself on the wrong side of the law after committing a crime 19 years ago, he knew a prison sentence would destroy his future.

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Nicro urges rehabilitation of young offenders to avert revolving doors at prisons

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PRISONERS’ rights organisation has called for intensified focus on rehabilitating young offenders who have a higher chance of re-offending.

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Tavern shootings are a sorrowful call for action, says Nicro

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Durban – The SA National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (Nicro) says the shootings and lives lost at taverns across South Africa are a sorrowful call for action.

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