Prisons are no daycare centres: The plight of inmates raising children behind bars

Chief Administrative Secretary Interior Ministry Winnie Guchu when she officially opened a daycare center at the Lang'ata Women's Prison.[Muriithi Mugo,Standard]

Nancy Chepkoech is serving a jail term at the Nakuru GK Female Prison alongside her three-year-old son Felix Kipkemoi. When Health & Science paid her a visit, she was busy helping out with school assignments.

Chepkoech from Keringet in Kuresoi was convicted of murder in February 2013 when she was barely two weeks pregnant and was worried how she would manage, but on due day, she was taken to the Rift Valley Provincial General hospital where she gave birth safely.