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Matiang'i says petty offenders to be released to decongest prisons

Interior CS Fred Matiang'i during ACK Bishops and Senior Clergy Conference 2022 at All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) in Nairobi on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 [David Njaaga, Standard]

It is now emerging that Kenya's prisons are filled up largely by petty offenders whose cases can be managed out of court.

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