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Includes: Statement and allegations against H. Suzman made by prisoner P.W.J. Putter - one of these documents mentions (Laurence) Gandar, (Percy) Yutar and (Harold 'Jock') Strachan; memo to Mr. Pogrund from R. McCarthy re conditions at The Fort prison in Johannesburg and how just before Helen Suzman visited the prisoners were issued with clean clothes, cells were tidied up, normal food for Africans substituted with better food; the prisoners were too scared to tell Helen Suzman; complaints from various prisons; "In Prison", a poem; statements by prisoners re: farm labour, assaults these include statements by Petrus Buti Mofokeng & Walter Bodikoa about being sentenced to 100 days for failing to pay tax, sent to Modderbee then transferred to Beeker Farm at Cullinan and the brutality there; memorandum and comments to the Minister of Justice by the Commissioner of Prisons on the report of the Committee of Investigation into the events at Barberton Maximum Security Prison on 20 and 30 September 1983; various handwritten notes including to Minster of Justice Pelser and his response on the back which seems to have been passed to him on the floor of the National Assembly; a letter from NICRO about juveniles.