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The collapse of vision on prison reforms

By PATRICK MATHANGANI

Prisons in Kenya are under the grip of widespread corruption, chronic congestion and rights abuses despite a reform plan started seven years ago, enquiries by CCI have revealed.
And warders are still living miserably in ramshackle houses across the country, as reforms started in 2003 have been painstakingly slow.

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