President Ruto Instructs Quick Development of Prisons Master Plan

Cabinet Secretaries for interior and public works have been instructed by President William Ruto to develop a prison master plan that will solve  the issue of overcrowding in prisons.

Speaking during the Labour Day celebrations at Uhuru Gardens, President Ruto said the prisons master plan will be used to identify and create more space for new prison sites.

Ruto said the correctional services are essential to the penal and national security structure tasked with charging and retraining criminals in a way that the right of both the public and prisoners is exercised.

Ruto acknowledged the Kenya Prison Service for adopting better correctional services and adhering to constitutional standards from punishments to the rehabilitation of offenders.

Ruto noted that the Kenya Prison Service uses training that aligns with the Government’s commitment to the bottom-up economic transformation agenda.

Ruto said more than 10,000 inmates are serving three years and below sentences. Whereas 41 per cent of the inmates are waiting to be bailed.

The president said the rehabilitation and correction structure focuses on empowering inmates by imparting knowledge, and meaningful skills and training inmates on several arts and crafts so that they may not find themselves on the wrong side of the law when released.