Especially given that in Africa, confinement as a form of punishment was largely unknown prior to colonialism. Even as prison conditions deteriorated markedly during the Mau Mau emergency and after Independence, attitudes towards incarceration did not change. Today, hundreds of thousands of Kenyans who have been convicted of no crime continue to spend time in police or remand jails. In short, in the name of fighting crime, Kenya continues to imprison millions of its citizens in inhumane and deplorable conditions. Kenya could look to her pre-colonial past for ideas on how to deal with crime.

Source: The Star November 01, 2020 06:22 UTC