A scheme to teach law in jails helped secure a ban on capital punishment
A SENIOR POLICEMAN in Kenya was recently sentenced to death for torturing and killing a prisoner who had been brought into a police station near Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, for drunkenly brawling with his wife. The policeman had thrashed him with a metal pipe, dunked his head in a drum of water and then, after the man had died, claimed he had been beaten by another prisoner, who was initially charged with the murder. Bribes were offered to other prisoners to incriminate their fellow inmate.
Through the African Prisons Project , a British-backed NGO, about 65 Kenyan prisoners, almost all of them lifers or on death row, are taking classes in law, their papers sent back and forth between London and Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. The scheme was started by a British lawyer, Alexander McLean, in neighbouring Uganda 12 years ago. In Kamiti prisoners and warders often attend class together, sometimes helping each other with homework or jointly solving legal conundrums.
Most of the women prisoners serving life or facing a death sentence in the maximum security jail in Langata, on the other side of Nairobi from Kamiti, murdered their husbands or partners. Yet their standard claim that they suffered violent domestic abuse carried little extenuating weight when judges sentenced them.
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