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    "id": 185002,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/185002/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 188,
        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The available capacity of prisons countrywide is 16,886 inmates. (b) The population of prisoners as at 30th May, 2008, is 47,585. (c) My Ministry is taking the following steps to decongest our prisons:- (i) Building of new prisons. Over the last two years, the Ministry has constructed the following new prisons: Rachuonyo, Mwingi, Vihiga, Nyamira, Migori and Makueni. All these prisons, with the exception of Vihiga, are now operational and have inmates. (ii) Construction of new wards in existing prisons is another approach that we have taken. (iii) My Ministry is further encouraging agents in the Criminal Justice System to strengthen non-custodial sentences to decongest our prisons. Given the current population of inmates in our prisons compared to the capacity, you can clearly see that there is serious congestion in our prisons. The system of non-custodial sentences ensures that offenders are either on probation or on community service order as an alternative to serving full jail terms. Last year, 34,709 offenders served the community service order and a further 11,817 served probation sentence."
}