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Still, some inmates have left prison reformed and better skilled to earn a living on the outside. One man writes uplifting children's books and is looking for a publisher. #BeyondCrime #WednesdayMotivation

If you are remanded, it's likely you will be detained in a facility that has been in existence for more than a century. The Nairobi  Nairobi Remand and Allocation Prison was completed in 1911. #BeyondCrime @hrw
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If you're remanded at Shimo La Tewa Men’s Prison in Mombasa county, you will be cooling your heels in premises built in 1953 during a state of emergency. #BeyondCrime @AliHassanJoho @TourismMombasa @LifeinMombasa

And if you are remanded at the Isiolo Prison, you will be in an enclosure built in 1947. #BeyondCrime @isiolo011 @isioloyetu @IsioloMinds @isiolo #Isiolo

Kakamega Main prison was built in 1932 by the colonial government and it houses more than 1,205 inmates. The recommended limit is 500. #BeyondCrime @KakamegaBunge @county_kakamega @KakamegaCounty1 @KHomeboyz #Kakamega

In the time between your arrest and your release from prison after serving your sentence, you probably will have contracted tuberculosis. pneumonia, scabies or diarrhoea — or all of them. #BeyondCrime #Kenya the-star.co.ke/amp/news/2019-…

They have been found to be the most prevalent ailments in Kenyan prisons, according to a survey on the criminal justice system that Chief Justice David Maraga released in 2017. #BeyondCrime

Kenya has about 57,000 inmates, many remanded and convicted for petty offences. First-time offenders are sometimes in the same population with hardened criminals.

Reforms are urgently needed.

#BeyondCrime

There threats and suspicion everywhere. A gentle human touch is rare. You're separated from family and friends.

But prison life is not that bad for the rich and influential.

#BeyondCrime

KTN investigations established that convicted criminals and suspects in remand, who have cash, can live like kings (of sorts) in self-contained cells with satellite TV and flush toilets.

Meantime, thousands of poor convicts wallow in misery and want.

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His first day in prison was a nightmare. Prisoners 'bid' for new inmates with the highest bidder turning the ‘newbie’ into a wife. #BeyondCrime

“There is a prisoner in charge of allocating sleeping quarters to new inmates. So, when you come in as first-timer and are still in the holding area, the prisoners in charge — we call them 'Overall'— will be bribed with amounts ranging from Sh300 to Sh500," #BeyondCrime

“Their preference is usually young, ‘yellow-yellow,’ plump men who are in prison for the first time," Stephen says. #BeyondCrime

When you get to the cell, which is usually full, your ‘husband’ will let you share his mattress, food and cigarettes. But come night, you will have to pay back.” #BeyondCrime

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