A task force led by retired Chief Justice David Maraga has exposed severe uniform shortages in Kenya’s prisons, with inmates and officers lacking adequate, quality and weather-appropriate clothing.
Maraga task force noted that some prisoners could not be assigned duties outside prison because they lacked appropriate formal wear. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
Inmates in correctional facilities across the country have no adequate uniforms, with most of them wearing tattered attire; the task force into reforms at the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) found out.
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