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Despite the decline in deaths early in the decade, 208,971 persons were committed to prison in 2024, down from 248,061 in 2023.
CHADEMA claimed that the reported treatment is more extreme than what Kaunya and his colleagues experienced while held at a police station before appe...
Tanzania’s Chadema party alleges its chair Tundu Lissu is being isolated at Ukonga Prison after officials were denied visits, a claim the Prisons Serv...
Judges Lucy Gitari and John Onyiego oversaw the release of 69 Garissa Medium Prison inmates to community service, part of a nationwide Judiciary effor...
The guarantee, once deposited, would pave the way for Ferdinand Waititu's freedom, however, the bond terms issued earlier in the hate-speech case stil...
According to the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Health, weak mechanisms for identifying and enrolling the poor have forced patients to...
The former county boss, who is already serving a prison sentence at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison for corruption-related offences, is accused of maki...
The court ruled that Waititu had not provided sufficient grounds to alter the earlier conditions, which required him to present a full bank guarantee.
Tuya urges a shift from punitive justice to rehabilitation and empowerment as Kenya accelerates correctional reforms focused on skills, dignity, and c...
The initiative will digitise inmate records, link regional commands through an online communication platform and introduce digital Nil-Certificates to...
The group is part of 250 Palestinians being released from Israeli jails, alongside about 1,700 detainees from Gaza, under a ceasefire agreement reache...
The conflict, which began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people in southern Israel and abducted 250 others, has left...
IGAD expressed solidarity with Somalia, describing the attack as “cowardly” and commending Mogadishu authorities for their swift response in containin...
Investigations into the assault on the high-security detention centre revealed that the attackers used a vehicle marked with the insignia of the Natio...
Investigations have been slowed down by missing records at the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning.
The case was withdrawn after petitioners told the court they had received more than 20,000 calls and messages from young people urging them not to der...
Correctional Services Principal Secretary Salome Beacco said the plan is aimed at curbing the spread of disease in prisons while ensuring inmates have...
Ferdinand Waititu, who was convicted in February 2025, had been handed the option of paying a fine of Sh53.5 million or serving a 12-year jail term.
The Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) raised concerns that prison facilities have continued to rely heavily on firewood, exposi...
The session, chaired by Nyeri Town MP Duncan Mathenge, grew tense as MPs expressed frustration that this was Arunduh’s second appearance without the r...
The fund, once operational, is expected to finance training programmes for inmates, purchase modern equipment and machinery and promote goods produced...
The committee said its findings will guide proposals to the National Assembly for a reform-focused and humane correctional system.
The ruling on Monday, September 8, comes after inmates faced the risk of being denied essential health services due to unpaid bills.
The Chief Justice reiterated that petty offenders serving less than three months should not be imprisoned but instead diverted to community service or...
Abdi Willy Adan said only some of the other suspects had refused food since Wednesday, while Mackenzie’s last hunger strike was recorded back in Febru...
Kituo Cha Sheria now wants the court to issue interim orders compelling both the Ministry of Health and Mbagathi Hospital to resume admitting and trea...
Prosecutors argued that the money was diverted from a fund intended to pay reparations to victims of the 2000 clashes between Ugandan and Rwandan troo...
According to the audit, the State Department for Correctional Services signed a tenancy agreement with a private service provider to lease a house for...
Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi outlined that the new fund will take over operations from the Prison Farms Revolving Fund, established in 1993,...
The revelations come amidst revelations by Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen that at least 10 Kenyans have died in police custody (pre-trial detention) i...
