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In all, 22 member countries of the African Union (AU) have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, and one for ordinary crimes. In 2021, only four countries in the AU carried out executions: Botswana, Egypt, Somalia and South Sudan.
Seventeen African countries are considered “de facto abolition…
Source — The Conversation
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Kenya: un "marais artificiel" purifie les eaux usées fétides d'une prison
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Women
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Of particular note are the children who accompany their mothers to prison. According to the Kenyan constitution, Persons Deprived of Liberty Act (2014), mothers in prison are allowed to have their children accompany them until they attain the age of 4 years. While the constitution has done well to…
Source — Standard media
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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…
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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.
Source — The Elephant
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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.
Source — Daily Nation
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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…
Source — Daily Nation
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Justice
Kenya
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.
Source — The death penalty project
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“Going to prison would have been a big problem as I have lots of people who depend on me.”
Source — Penal Reform International
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Throughout the world, probation systems and community-based sentences have been designed for men and by men.
Source — Penal Reform International
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Mistreatment of Kenya’s Muslim Somali community detailed in report last year by human rights commission
Source — AA
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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.
Source — Daily Nation
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Justice
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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…
Source — Reuters
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Material conditions
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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.
Source — Daily Nation
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