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Hope for inmates as Judiciary kicks off programme to decongest cells

Inmates at Kamiti Medium Security Prison's entrance, September 4, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Hundreds of prisoners could soon walk to freedom following a move by the Judiciary to decongest prisons.

Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi, in a memo to all heads of court stations across the country, said the Judiciary was concerned with the high number of inmates in prisons, currently almost twice their capacity.

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