Kenya
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Kenya
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.
Kenya: left behind
Interview
Africa
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Mental health
Kenya
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.
Kenya: un "marais artificiel" purifie les eaux usées fétides d'une prison
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Kenya
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Africa
Women
Minors
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Kenya
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.
Kenya: finding Kafka in the criminal justice system
Analysis
Opinion
Africa
Pre-trial detention
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Kenya
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…
Africa
Health
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Work
Kenya
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.
Kenya: la malagueña que enseña meditación en las cárceles
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Africa
Kenya
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Africa
Justice
Death penalty
Kenya
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…