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    "id": 1276564,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1276564/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohammed",
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    "content": "Some children in jail get sick and do not get proper treatment. There are conditions that need proper treatment such as asthma. During the cold season, mothers may not have warm clothing for themselves, and children suffer even more. Breastfeeding mothers need to be given more care because their children need to be breastfed, and the mothers need different foods from those taken by other women in prison. It is not just children in prisons who have been neglected. Prisons in general have been neglected. Children and parents should be taken care of. You may have made a mistake, but prisons have been put in place for correction, not judgment. One should not die in prison in a desperate situation. Prisons are institutions for correcting bad behaviour. A child should not be made to feel that their parent is a prisoner because they were bad. They will grow up thinking that their parents are bad. Children need psychological help more than anything else. That must be accompanied by education. A child needs to be given an opportunity to go to a proper school in prison, so that when the child comes out, their life can be normal like that of any other child. I am very sure that children in prison are unable to watch us as we deliberate in this House. However, when their guardians go to visit them, please help the children to know that there is a God, that this country cares for them, and that their parents are in prison, but when they come out, God willing, they will change their character. The child should know that he or she is not imprisoned, and it is their parent who is imprisoned. I pray that those children will come out of prison one day and one of them will become the Woman Representative of Migori County, a governor, the president of Kenya, a CEO, or a director. For children whose mothers are in prison, encourage those who are in school with you and let them know that they are good children, and that their parents are good people. They just made a few mistakes, and they have to be corrected. When they come out, they will be good people."
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