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    "id": 500522,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/500522/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2749,
        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
        "slug": "col-rtd-ali-rasso-dido"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Bill goes further to provide what we, as a country, are seeing. It is the gradual development of our law and the maturity of the country. Whereas hon. Gumbo said that maybe we are making prisons cosy, we should appreciate the fact that the individuals who go to prison have not been banished from the society; they will return to the society. There are many provisions that have been inbuilt in this Bill. The hon. Members who spoke before me talked about prisoners being visited every seven days or being visited by their families every three months. On complaints and disciplinary procedures, what used to happen previously is that as soon as individuals go to prison, they lose their voice, humanity and dignity. If there are avenues of expressing themselves to the effect that they remain important individuals to the society, then this Bill has provided that. Whereas this Bill is good, without investing in our correctional facilities through better remuneration of prison warders, seriously funding of the Prison Department and investing in the education of prison warders, this Bill will just be a good piece of legislation without the heart to hang on."
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