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    "content": "opportunities for education. At that stage, that generation is lost. Even if you correct them, academically they will come out with zero. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is still sexual blackmailing in these institutions. The food is little and some of the boys have to provide sexual favours so that they can get food. There is also limited access to legal aid. I support this motion because it allows us to look at the Borstal Institutions Act and come up with a policy and legislative proposals that will align these institutions to the Constitution. I am quite passionate about this because if we are not careful, these young men who have been committed to these institutions shall be consigned to a vicious circle of crime. It appears we sent them there to punish, kill and to brand them as criminals. When they come out they can do nothing better than that. This Select Committee will come up with actionable proposals that will help us to rescue that generation. I expect that they will also come up as a team and recommend a Borstal institution that caters for the interests of female young offenders. It is unacceptable that we do not have a designated institution for young female offenders. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important that this nation provides a copy of the Constitution to everyone who is providing public service. Maybe, we should find a way of testing whether people understand this Constitution. There are people who grew up in the difficult days of colonialism and who understood the world from a different perspective. They grew up into the first administration where we were just opening up. They matured in the second administration where there were concerns about the limitation of rights. They are ageing at the time when the new Constitution has come in place. It is important that we make sure that police officers, prison warders and anyone providing a public service is aware of this new Constitution and can almost recite it and particularly the provisions on the Bill of Rights and Integrity. We must also deal with corruption and bureaucracy. An example of what happens every other weekend in Nairobi is that many motorists are flagged down after taking a glass of wine and that becomes a very complicated matter where someone ends up in remand or even jail simply because he had a glass of wine. The law prohibits driving under the influence of alcohol but we must make our legal justice system friendly, less prone to corruption, less bureaucratic such that if you are arrested in that particular state, the first option is not to go to a police cell. Many times people are sent to the cells because when that happens, there is a lot of commotion and then the size of the bribe grows big. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, traffic offences are not criminal and we should come up with a system of treating traffic offenders humanely so that we do not clog our cells or jails. In conclusion, there could be areas where we need to ask ourselves if we have money to invest if we have to put up another Borstal institution for female offenders. If we have to deal with these 284 per cent occupancy rate in our prisons, that is where we need to ask ourselves whether the Senate will have the mandate to come up with certain proposals that will have an implication on the Exchequer or an implication on the financial support. I support. 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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