Most women in Kenyan jails for liquor offences

Inmates at the Lang’ata Maximum Women Prison walk with a child. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Liquor crimes remain the single largest reason for jailing of women in Kenya, a new survey showed.

Statistics by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) showed that in 2017 alone, 5,145 or 64 per cent of the 8,004 female prisoners were guilty of alcohol offences under the punitive Liquor Act.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.