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    "id": 89757,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the Member for Yatta has gone to the core of the problem. Our prisons are congested mainly by people in the remand prisons. On average, on a daily basis, prisoner population is about 50,000 and out of this, more than 25,000 of those are prisoners waiting for their cases to be mentioned in court. If they are criminal cases, then after every two weeks, they have to appear before a magistrate for the mention of their cases. During that time, the hon. Member for Yatta feels that they get training in a negative way. I assure this House that after the promulgation of the Constitution tomorrow, one of the things that my Ministry will do is to prepare to release many of these young men and women in remand prisons. This is because it is a requirement that within 48 hours, anybody serving less than six months charged with an offence whose punishment is by a fine of less than Kshs1,000 or has to serve a prison term of less than six months should be set free immediately. In fact, they will be given automatic bail. We think that, that will have the effect of decongesting our prisons. Then, there will be no possibility of people getting wrong training while in prison."
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