![]() Afford people access to healthcare as required by the Constitution and other laws. Don’t hold people in cells for 23 hours a day, let them out for longer so that they breathe fresh air. Thus, what should the State do about Dudley Lee? The answers are simple in theory and certainly achievable in practice. His court cases have been used by TB researchers and activists to campaign for better conditions in prison to reduce the incidence of TB.Īfter Lee’s Constitutional Court victory, John Stephens of SECTION27 wrote an opinion piece for GroundUp about the consequences of the case: Very few wardens did their best, but a few were really decent,” he told us. You’ve got to pay bribes to get to the prison hospital and back. The wardens are corrupt and like a mafia. I bought BMWs on auction, fixed them up and sold them. ![]() At that point he was living on a R1,200 state pension in St Monica’s, a home for the aged in Bo Kaap, near the centre of Cape Town. “They stuffed my life up,” Lee told GroundUp two years ago about his time in prison. He was, according to his attorney, paid approximately R270,000 by the Department of Correctional Services in the latter half of 2013. Lee lived long enough to see justice done. Lee appealed to the Constitutional Court where he eventually won in December 2012. His case succeeded in the Cape High Court, but was overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeal. He was acquitted of all charges in September 2004.Īssisted by attorney Jonathan Cohen, Lee sued the state because he contracted TB in Pollsmoor’s overcrowded, poorly ventilated cells. ![]() Except for a short period out on bail, Lee spent over four years in prison between 19, charged with various financial crimes. ![]()
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