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    "content": "Lang’ata Women’s Prison, you do not know what you are talking about. If you have never heard of block D and E in GK Remand Prison, Industrial Area, you do not know what sort of violations we have. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether I should say this. Something curious happens at the GK Remand Prison that borders on violation of human rights beyond what I should say in public. It is something that we should investigate. As a lawyer, one of the things I used to fear the most is for a client to be taken to a GK remand prison. That fear has now turned out into corruption because if you do not want your client to be remanded in block D, you pay for them to go to block E where they will get a blanket and some food. I do not know whether Sen. Adan has looked at the Prisons Act as it is. It has a menu of the food that they should offer prisoners. It is well detailed but do they do it? No, they do not do it. If you go to the remand section at the Lang’ata Womens’ Prison and look at the young girls in remand, it will break your heart beyond belief. I had the experience and I remember asking you to join the rotary because maybe you would have had the experience like I did. When I was the president of my Rotary Club, we went and painted one of the rooms at the Lang’ata Women’s’ Prison. In 2008, there were 64 infants in that condition and, you ask yourself how they ended up with 64 infants to begin with. The infants are subjected to such conditions as persons who are being punished for crimes. The right of innocence in this Republic is violated by our prisons because the minute you enter a prison facility, you are condemned. If you do not come out of the prison, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale you must attest to this, with communicable diseases like tuberculosis or sexually transmitted diseases and others, you are lucky. Our people are being violated. In my view, there should be provision for non-custodial sentences where people who commit petty crimes, instead of waiting for His Excellency the President to issue a general amnesty for them to be released to clean compounds and offices of fat cats. These are the people who should be cleaning the City of Nairobi, courts, prisons and collecting garbage under non-custodial sentences. In fact, we would save money that the Ministry of Devolution and Planning is paying to clear drainages because we have people who are spending public funds for petty crimes in our remands waiting for their cases to be heard and they will never be heard. We must congratulate the Chief Justice, Willy Mutunga. He has wisely thought that we can translocate some prisons so that matters are heard expeditiously but it is also not helping. When the remandees are brought to court and you look at them wearing different shoes, you do not want your relative in any prison in Kenya. This Motion is timely because we must treat all Kenyans in conformity with the conventions on Human Rights. More so, the persons who are convicted and sentenced must come out as better people. These are the people - I stand corrected - who made these seats and the number plates. What happens when they come out? They become hardcore criminals. When young people are in custody, they pick all the bad habits because they would rather go back and stay in prisons because it has also become a business. Crime is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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