Pre-trial detention in Malawi
Subtitle: understanding caseflow management and conditions of incarceration
Contributors: Ehlers, Louise, writer of introduction; Redpath, Jean, author; Open Society Foundation for South Africa; Open Society Foundations; Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Publisher: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Published: 2011
Place of publication: South Africa?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Detention of persons; Administration of Criminal justice; Preventive detention
Other titles: Understanding caseflow management and conditions of incarceration; Audit of pre-trial detention and case flow management in Malawi
Notes: Title from cover.

"This report was prepared as part of a research project on pretrial detention and case flow management in Malawi. The project was a collaboration between the  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Open Society Foundations Global Criminal Justice Fund (GCJF), the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA), the University of Western Cape Community Law Centre (CLC), the Paralegal Advisory Service Institute (PASI), the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice, and Assistance (CHREAA), and the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR). The project was governed by a Memorandum of Understanding with the Malawian Ministry of Justice."

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Lukas Muntingh, Louise Ehlers; title: Methodology  -- Lukas Muntingh and Jean Redpath; title: Malawian criminal justice system  -- Pacharo Kayira; title: The legislative framework for pre-trial detention  -- Pacharo Kayira; title: Prison law and conditions of detention  -- Pacharo Kayira; title: Survey of conditions of detention in police cells  -- Lukas Muntingh; title: Survey of conditions of detention in prisons  -- Lukas Muntingh; title: Case flow management research -- Jean Redpath.