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    "id": 287960,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/287960/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kones",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 58,
        "legal_name": "Beatrice Pauline Cherono Kones",
        "slug": "beatrice-kones"
    },
    "content": "First of all, I would like to clarify that the prisoners’ earning scheme is at Kshs30 per day. The earning scheme is provided for in the Prisons Act, Cap.90, Laws of Kenya, and in Chapter 68 of the Kenya Prisons Standing Orders. The Standing Orders provides as follows:- “The participation of prisoners in the earning scheme is a privilege for good conduct and behaviour. The earnings received under this scheme do not constitute a salary or wage. It is a token for appreciation for hard work output, good conduct and behaviour by prisoners.” It should be noted that prisoners are not workmen within the meaning of Workmen Compensation Act. The earning scheme is designed to be an incentive in the training and employment of prisoners so far as to cultivate and maintain a sense of hard work, social responsibility, good conduct and behaviour, so that they become self-reliant, law abiding and useful members of the society in future. (b) My Ministry has appointed a task force vide Gazette Notice No.3582 dated 8th April, 2011 to draft a Bill on the rights of persons detained, held in custody or imprisoned as required in Article 51 of the new Constitution. The task force has already tabled a report in our Ministry and the Ministry officials are working on it. The report will later on go to the Attorney-General, the Committee on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), the Cabinet and eventually to the Floor of the House."
}