SUPPORT FORMER INMATES' INTERGRATION INTO SOCIETY,THIKA RESIDENTS URGED
Thika
West Sub-County
Youth Officer Laban Mwangi has urged Thika residents to support the integration of prisoners freed from
detention into society. He said that inmates coming out of
detention needed the society's support to fit back into their communities.
"Stigma is the main problem to those who finish their sentence. Prison
as institutions work hard to rehabilitate inmates and I believe many of
them come out reformed. The society has the obligation of accepting
them back after transformation and completion of their sentences," Mwangi said on Thursday.
Mr Mwangi was addressing relatives and
friends of inmates at the Thika Women Prisons when they visited their loved ones at the prison.
"Rejecting those who
have finished their sentences back into society affects them and society should receive civic
education on how to handle such people on accepting them back to the community," Mr Mwangi added.
He added that prison wardens had tried their best to counsel inmates and even taught them about self acceptance, peace providing techniques among
other lessons.
“It is high time
society accepted reformed inmates and offer them support despite their criminal records," he said.
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