Prisons law school that renews inmates’ hope

Kamiti Maximum Prison in-mates and ex-convicts celebrate after they received their Law degree from the University of London on October 31. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Four years ago, on a day that has remained the darkest in Herine Akinyi’s life, her son Hezron Onyango was sentenced to life behind bars.

As 26-year old Onyango was led away at Ngon’g Law Courts, Akinyi thought it was the last time she was seeing her son alive.