Life outside jail: No place to call sweet home for freed convicts

Former prisoner Ali Hassan inside his uncle’s butchery at Kiamaiko in Nairobi, where he now works. [Courtesy]

The courts have in the recent past saved almost 1,000 murder and armed robbery convicts from the hangman, but it is no easy walk to freedom, as the convicts have found out.

In the court of public opinion and even among some close relatives, the freed convicts are condemned and not welcome, their acquisition of useful industrial skills notwithstanding.