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Kenya Prison Service committed to ensure prisoners acquire skills through rehabilitation

Franco Iyobi (left) of Kamiti Medium Prison challenges Bill Clinton of Kamiti Youth Correction and Training Centre (YCTC) during their 2022 Inter-Prisons World Cup match at Kamiti Maximum Prison in Nairobi on November 17, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Kenya Prison Service Director General Brigadier (rtd) John Warioba has said that the Department is committed to ensure that offenders are not only rehabilitated but acquire skills that will enable them integrate with the society once they are out.

Warioba said that they have reviewed prisoner training programmes to align with the government's Bottom-Up Economic Transformation agenda with prisoners given necessary skills and certification to seek employment opportunities or plunge into entrepreneurship upon sentence completion.

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