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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the hon. Member for Bura for that question. Let him know that since I was appointed Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs, this House would recall that prison officers actually went on strike and there were reasons as to why they did that. I promised this House that we would do certain things which we did. So, we appointed a special Commission led by an eminent Kenyan, Maj, (Rtd) Marsden Madoka who compiled a report because the Office of the Vice-President and Ministry of Home Affairs has to deal with prisoner rehabilitation and what might be a hardcore criminal today, will come out as a very useful citizen. You may not know but previously, it has been that everyday served in prison, an inmate would only have to his credit some 10 cents or thereabout. This is a thing that has been there since colonial times. One of the recommendations is that we should be able, by the time an inmate is released to go home, he/she should get tools that will sustain his/her livelihood. Therefore, the allowance that one is entitled to should be slightly increased. Those are some of the things that we are trying to do so that we succeed in our efforts in making sure that we rehabilitate these Kenyans in prisons. Therefore, I think that what we call a hardcore criminal will end up being a very useful citizen if we succeed as the Office of the Vice-President and Ministry of Home Affairs. That is our intention. We have carried out many reforms and we will continue to carry them out according to the recommendations of the Madoka Report."
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