Brutal incarceration has the primary means by which the Kenyan state has engaged with its citizens. Without fundamentally reforming and rebuilding the logic of the state,...
Kenyan prisons today carry the DNA of their forebears – the colonial prisons and Mau Mau detention camps. They are about brutalising prisoners into submission and...
There is no evidence of the existence of pre-colonial prisons in Kenya. Prisons were among the first buildings the British built whenever they went into a...
When I thought about it, it dawned on me, that everyone was guilty of some offence. If you were driving and in motion, a traffic violation....
CHRISTINE MUNGAI explores Kenya's new prison industrial complex and unearths the fundamental flaws in Jubilee's plan to make jails profitable.
