Prisoners will receive new bedding in the financial year starting July 1 after Parliament allocated an extra Sh342.1 million to the State Department for Correction Services.
The Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs increased the Prisons Services budget by Sh6.5 billion for the purchase of bedding, uniforms for prison staff, food rations for inmates, domestic travel and subsistence allowances as well as tractors and seeds for the Prisons Department.
