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A hard-hitting exposé of G4S, the company running one of South Africa’s private prisons in Mangaung. Hopkins presents up-close encounters with the gangs who run the prisons, and a unique insight into the minds of the men on the torture squad, who doused inmates with water before electrocuting them, and in some cases, strapped down ‘unruly’

The Misery Merchants Life and Death in a Private

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      Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
      Publication Date: 20/03/2020
      ISBN13: 9781431429363, 978-1431429363
      ISBN10: 1431429368
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      Book Synopsis
      A hard-hitting exposé of G4S, the company running one of South Africa’s private prisons in Mangaung. Hopkins presents up-close encounters with the gangs who run the prisons, and a unique insight into the minds of the men on the torture squad, who doused inmates with water before electrocuting them, and in some cases, strapped down ‘unruly’

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