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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important issue. Sen. Fatuma Dullo was the chair of the ad hoc committee. I have the report. Sometimes I feel that we were afraid of the land grabbing issue which was very sensitive in order to bring the issues that concern prisons. Possibly, Sen. Dullo can move so that, that report can be adopted because we did a lot of work. We spent some time with very hardened criminals in Sweden and proposed reforms in borstal institutions including one in a place called Shikuza Prison in Kakamega which has 400 boys and no girls. They gave us very harrowing stories about their cases. When Sen. Halake’s issue is being handled, we can do this holistically. We need to reform our prisons and the way people are being treated there because instead of this being a reform institution, this is a place where young people-like the ones in Industrial Area where we visited a month ago, they are taking a lot of pleasure in being in prisons. We even have a band called Zangalewa in GK Remand Prison where they are making money from just being in prison. I do not think this is the objective of having a remand like that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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