Reoffending in Kenya’s Prisons
Category: Prison
By: Leo Kipkogei Kemboi,
The number of the week is 11%, which is the share of previously convicted persons of the prison population in 2022.
Over the past eight years, an average of 115,727 persons have been committed to imprisonment. On average, over the last eight years, 14397 of the people who have been committed to imprisonment have already been found guilty. That implies that 12% of prisoners were previously convicted.
The number of people incarcerated increased from 133,859 in 2015 to 141,948 in 2019. Due to prison depopulation methods implemented by the National Council for Administration of Justice in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the number fell by 60% in 2020. After that, the number has grown rapidly by 82% between 2020 and 2023.
The share of previously convicted persons of the prison population in 2022 was 11%.
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Reoffending in Kenya’s Prisons
| Post date: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 |
| Category: Prison |
| By: Leo Kipkogei Kemboi, |
The number of the week is 11%, which is the share of previously convicted persons of the prison population in 2022.
Over the past eight years, an average of 115,727 persons have been committed to imprisonment. On average, over the last eight years, 14397 of the people who have been committed to imprisonment have already been found guilty. That implies that 12% of prisoners were previously convicted.
The number of people incarcerated increased from 133,859 in 2015 to 141,948 in 2019. Due to prison depopulation methods implemented by the National Council for Administration of Justice in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the number fell by 60% in 2020. After that, the number has grown rapidly by 82% between 2020 and 2023.
The share of previously convicted persons of the prison population in 2022 was 11%.
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