Government pushes for more women in Kenya Prisons Service recruitment drive

PS Salome Beacco CBS, PS State Department of Correctional Services before the National Assembly's Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC) in consideration of 2025 Budget Policy statement at Continental House, Parliament Nairobi on February 26 ,2025 (Elvis Ogina, Standard)

Principal Secretary for Correctional Services Dr Salome Muhia-Beacco has announced that more girls will be recruited into the Kenya Prisons Service as part of the ongoing national recruitment exercise, in a renewed effort to uphold the constitutional one-third gender rule.

Speaking during an inspection tour of the recruitment exercise in Juja, the PS reiterated her department's commitment to gender equity in the security sector, highlighting the critical need for greater female representation within correctional facilities.