New focus on welfare of prisoners welcome

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Correctional services PS Mary Muthoni engages a prisoner at the Kerugoya prison woodwork workshop, where she pledges to seek more funding in the budget so as to get prisoners new uniforms and better their lifestyle in prisons by championing for one prisoner, one mattress, one bed. FILE PHOTO | POOL

Parliament should endorse the proposal to allocate additional money to the Prisons Service in the wake of inhumane conditions facing inmates including shortage of food and bedding.

The Budget and Appropriations Committee has proposed to Parliament to allocate the department an additional Sh6.49 billion for foodstuff and bedding.

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