{"id":77268,"date":"2024-08-12T05:08:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/judiciary-rolls-out-prisons-decongestion-initiative\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T05:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T05:08:24","slug":"judiciary-rolls-out-prisons-decongestion-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/judiciary-rolls-out-prisons-decongestion-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary rolls out Prisons Decongestion Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice Martha Koome will this morning preside over the Prisons Decongestion Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place at the Nairobi Remand and Allocation Maximum Security Prison-Industrial Area.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Kenyan government has been working on initiatives to decongest prisons, which currently hold around 62,000 inmates compared to a capacity of 30,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>One of the key comprehensive strategies is working closely with the judiciary to review cases and allow some detainees to undergo trial outside the prison system.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is expected to ease the burden on the existing facilities and streamline the judicial process.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the action plan by the Judiciary to promote a sustainable prison population includes reviewing bail and bond terms, promoting community service and revising sentencing for misdemeanours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/judiciary-rolls-out-prisons-decongestion-initiative\/\">Judiciary rolls out Prisons Decongestion Initiative<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice Martha Koome will this morning preside over the Prisons Decongestion Initiative. The event will take place at the Nairobi Remand and Allocation Maximum Security Prison-Industrial Area. The Kenyan government has been working on initiatives to decongest prisons, which currently hold around 62,000 inmates compared to a capacity of 30,000. One of the key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}