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February 23, 2024

Kenya: prisoners granted right to attend family funerals in landmark ruling

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Prisoners held in custody have been granted the right to attend the funerals of their close family members, unless compelling reasons dictate otherwise. The ruling was made in a case by former journalist Moses Dola, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence since 2018.

July 24, 2023

Kenya: left behind

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Misunderstood and excluded by their peers, people with mental health conditions are more likely to end up in prison. Once incarcerated, their ostracization is striking. The NGO Tunawiri addresses this issue by providing training to incarcerated people and prison staff. Interview.

September 21, 2022

Kenya: why has the country not abolished the death penalty?

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In recent months two African states have announced their intentions to abolish the death penalty Zambia and the Central African Republic.

April 4, 2022

Kenya: un "marais artificiel" purifie les eaux usées fétides d'une prison

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This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

June 23, 2021

Kenya: children in prison with their mothers – not their crime yet their sentence

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Thirty years after the adoption of the charter, we still have a long way to go in accelerating the implementation of Agenda 2040: fostering an Africa fit for children.

June 7, 2021

Kenya: finding Kafka in the criminal justice system

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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Gilbert M. Omware, Defence lawyer and criminal justice researcher, discusses the injustices faced by vulnerable group…

September 18, 2020

Kenya: the dehumanisation and exploitation of inmates in state prisons

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Kenyan prisons today carry the DNA of their forebears – the colonial prisons and Mau Mau detention camps. They are about brutalising prisoners into submission and scaring the rest of society into compliance with the state. And like their colonial predecessors, they are also sites of forced labour.

November 4, 2019

Kenya : criminal justice system favours the rich, State report reveals

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Kenya’s criminal justice system favours the rich and is skewed to condemn the poor, a State report has revealed.

July 26, 2019

Kenya: la malagueña que enseña meditación en las cárceles

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This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

May 20, 2019

Kenya: mothers in prison deserve better conditions to bring up children

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The Kenya Prisons Service has allowed children under four years to accompany their mothers to prison, where they are accorded relatively proper care.

March 5, 2019

Kenya: Kodiaga prison sewage flows into River Saka

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Kenya Prisons Commissioner-General Isaiah Osugo has admitted that the main correctional facility in Kisumu has been emitting raw sewage into a river from which residents fetch drinking water. Mr Osugo toured Kodiaga Maximum Security Prison on Tuesday alongside prisons bosses in Nyanza region. He ad…

December 14, 2017

Kenyian supreme court declares mandatory death penalty unconstitutional

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The mandatory death penalty violates fundamental human rights, rules the Supreme Court of Kenya today in a historic judgment that will affect thousands of prisoners.

October 2, 2017

Kenya: gender-sensitive approach to non-custodial sentences

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“Going to prison would have been a big problem as I have lots of people who depend on me.”

July 20, 2017

Kenya: why a gender-sensitive approach is needed, a probation director’s perspective

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PRI talked to Paul King’e, County Probation Director in Nakuru, Kenya, to find out how a gender-sensitive approach to community-based programmes can help female offenders in Kenya.

July 17, 2017

Kenya: eight things to remember when implementing a gender-sensitive approach to probation

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Throughout the world, probation systems and community-based sentences have been designed for men and by men.

April 13, 2017

Kenya: president signs new anti-torture law

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Mistreatment of Kenya’s Muslim Somali community detailed in report last year by human rights commission

February 24, 2017

Kenya: location determines how the law treats you, audit finds

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Where you live goes a long way to determining whether you get justice or not, a new audit of the criminal justice system reveals.

February 15, 2017

Kenya: president directs release of petty offenders

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President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery and the Commissioner of Prisons, Gen Isaiah Osugo, to liaise with the chief justice and fast-track the release of petty offenders to decongest prisons and reduce government spending on them.

January 24, 2017

Kenya: prisons are full of young and poor petty offenders, report indicates

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More than 75 per cent of prisoners are aged between 18 and 35, with a majority of them being petty offenders.

October 24, 2016

Kenyan president commutes all death sentences to life in prison

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President Uhuru Kenyatta commuted all death sentences in Kenya to life jail terms on Monday, removing 2,747 convicts from death row in a nation that has not executed anyone for about three decades. In addition to commuting the sentences of 2,655 men and 92 women, Kenyatta also signed pardon warrant…

September 27, 2016

Kenya : one of the largest prisons has had no water for four days

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For the fourth day running, the Naivasha Maximum Security Prison has had no water. This follows the disconnection of the institution’s power supply over an estimated Sh1.6 million in unpaid bills. The power is required to pump water from the institution’s borehole.