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Agony for prisoners as court files goes missing

Chrispine Otieno, an inmate at Kisumu Maximum security prison airs his grievances before a team from Ombudsman's office who visited the facility on February 25, 2019. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

Missing court files, some which have not been seen for over 10 years, have denied some inmates at Kodiaga Maximum Prison justice.

As a result, the inmates, most serving life sentences, have given up hope of ever securing their freedom through the Court of Appeal.

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