Human Rights for Prison Officers!
Posted by Admin on 08 09 2009
This is not quite what it looks........
Over 100 prison officers from 7 Kenyan Coast Province prisons attended a conference hosted by CLEAR to discuss what human rights meant for the people in their charge. Speakers at the conference included Victor Kamau, CLEAR's senior advocate specialising in human rights and Miss Wanini Kireri, Assistant Commissioner of Prisons. Miss Kireri strongly supports those who wish to see humane conditions in the prisons and has received the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Award twice for her work in prison reform. She described the CLEAR conference in the following terms; ‘it is a dream come true that prison officers are able to sit together like this and talk about human rights’. The conference came about when guards at prisons in which CLEAR staff were working with prisoners asked about training for themselves.
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