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How a Bungoma officer Is rewriting the future of prisoners' children by keeping them in school

Chrispinus Wafula a Kenya Prisons Service cop and founder Prisons Christian Ministries addressing the media in Bungoma on Saturday after handing over the stationeries [Juliet Omelo, Standard]

Every morning, as the heavy prison gates clang shut behind inmates, another, quieter sentence is passed beyond the walls on the children left behind.

For many, a parent’s incarceration marks the beginning of stigma, hunger, and an abrupt end to schooling.

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