52 years after independence and Kenya has only two reform schools

Students of Shmo La Tewa Borstal School from Mombasa County presents their swahilli play"Badilisha Tabia" at the Star of the Sea primary School hall in Mombasa on Wednesday,011th march,2015. This was during day two of the 2015 Coastal Region Primary Schools Drama festivals. [PHOTO/MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD].

In 1963, the country's first Parliament enacted a Borstal Institutions Act Chapter 92 to provide for detention of youthful offenders.

This gave rise to the nation's first such institution in Kakamega named Shikusa Borstal Institution (BI).