
To many Kenyans looking from the outside, Mathari Psychiatric & Referral Hospital in Nairobi is an establishment where mentally ill persons are taken for treatment and rehabilitation.
What they may not know is that within that expansive compound, there is the Mathari Maximum Security Unit where those found criminally insane by the courts are confined. In addition, it hosts those awaiting psychiatric evaluation before taking plea as the law requires.
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