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Fighting to shed off bad image

By JOB WERU and WINSLEY MASESE


King’ong’o and Kodiaga prisons are struggling to shed the image of disease, torture and death that had come to be associated with the institutions.
Situated in Nyeri, King’ong’o is remembered for the bludgeoning to death by warders of six inmates one night in 2001.

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