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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the changes that have been made in the last 10 years. For example, in Langata Women’s Prison, you find them studying for O level exams and so on. However, it is not enough. We need to do it as a matter of policy across the board and the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, the reforms, in these institutions are long overdue. We must address the issue of the courts and the criminal justice system in a manner that excludes people from prisons for petty offences that you have mentioned earlier so that people do those community things and they are punished or fined. Secondly, is about building capacities and making sure they have adequate finances; build the institutions, prisons for the prisoner and also build the housing – if you see the kind of houses prison people stay in – you talk about the police but you go and see where prions warders stay in some places even here in Nairobi, you will be shocked. They literally live in a very squalid condition because the Government does not seem to favour them, under the Office of the President (OP), which is the headquarters of corruption. When you put prisons under the Office of the President, the little money that comes goes to the police and may be little trickles to the Administration Police but nothing trickles down to prison warders. It is important that they need to look at the entire structure legislatively and administratively and see how we can improve. With those few remarks, I support."
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