The South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) was formed in Modderbee Prison in 1988 by political and other prisoners. A National Office was opened in 1992. SAPOHR's mission statement is as follows: To address the legacy of the apartheid criminal justice and prison systems and contribute to a culture of human rights and social justice in a non-racial, non-sexist democratic South Africa. Its main functions are to act as a watchdog of the prison services, to be a representative and a voice of prisoners, to provide para-legal services to prisoners, to address human rights abuses within South African prisons and to reform and democratise the Correctional Services and Criminal Justice Service in South Africa.