Inmates numbers keep prisons top brass awake
Monday January 18 2021
By EDWIN MUTAI
Summary
The population of inmates continues to surpass the prisons’ holding capacity despite attempts to decongest the facilities through alternative dispute resolution.
The official capacity of prisons in Kenya is 26,687 but data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that daily average population of prisoners was 53,348 as at December 2019.
The official statistics indicate that of the daily prison population, 29,796 were convicted inmates while 23,552 were remandees.
The population of inmates continues to surpass the prisons’ holding capacity despite attempts to decongest the facilities through alternative dispute resolution.