Topic: Kenya Prisons Service
Ruto makes major shake-up in National Police Service following IG Koome's exit
Jul 12, 2024 at 06:04 PM
A significant reshuffle within the upper echelons of Kenya's National Police Service (NPS) and Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) has been announced following the resignation of the Inspe...
Former Kenya Prisons Service boss Isaya Osugo dies at Nairobi hospital aged 67
Jan 10, 2023 at 03:19 PM
Osugo, who retired as Prisons Commissioner General in 2019, is credited with spearheading key reforms in the penal institutions and giving them a more humane face....
William Ruto puts ex-CJ David Maraga in charge of police, prisons welfare reforms
Dec 22, 2022 at 11:43 AM
Former Chief Justice David Maraga has been appointed as the chairperson of a taskforce that has been established to improve the working conditions of police and prisons officers....
Uhuru mourns trailblazing first female Prison Staff Training College commandant Wanini Kireri
May 31, 2022 at 09:01 PM
President Uhuru Kenyatta has condoled with family, friends and colleagues of the Senior Assistant Commissioner of Prisons and first woman Commandant of Prisons Staff Training Colle...
Wanini Kireri, trailblazing first female Prison Staff Training College commandant, dies at city hospital
May 31, 2022 at 05:28 PM
The Kenya Prisons Service has experienced the sad loss of Prisons Staff Training College Ruiru, Senior Assistant Commissioner General of Prisons (SACGP) Wanini Kireri....
Kenya Prisons Service responds to Citizen TV expose on 'Kamiti Call Center'
Apr 20, 2022 at 04:15 PM
The State Department of Correctional Services has issued a statement over a story that was aired on Citizen TV on Monday by news anchor Lulu Hassan entitled ‘Inside the Kamiti Ma...
Court freezes Sh257 million assets of prisons cleaning supervisor over corruption links
Apr 20, 2022 at 12:00 PM
An employee of the Kenya Prisons Department is at a huge loss after the Nairobi High Court froze his assets worth Sh257 million over a corruption case involving him....
Matiang’i pays glowing tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty
Dec 08, 2021 at 02:34 AM
The Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i paid a glowing tribute to police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty....
Sacked prisons boss Wycliffe Ogalo has not been arrested, police say - PHOTOS
Nov 17, 2021 at 06:21 PM
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday evening announced that he had dismissed Ogalo from office following the upsetting escape of three terrorism convicts from Kamiti Maximum Priso...
Uhuru sacks Kenya Prisons boss Wycliffe Ogalo over foul Kamiti Prison break
Nov 17, 2021 at 04:00 PM
President Uhuru Kenyatta has sacked Kenya Prisons Service Commissioner-General Wycliffe Ogalo over an incident in which three terrorism convicts escaped from Kamiti Maximum Prison....
President Kenyatta urges the newly graduated prison cadets to adhere to customs of the service
Oct 29, 2021 at 04:16 PM
President Kenyatta said he's happy with what the Prison department has done in promoting the big 4 agenda specifically in food security and manufacturing....
Tokyo Olympics 1500m silver medalist Timothy Cheruiyot gets promoted
Aug 16, 2021 at 04:07 PM
It is more reward, for Timothy Cheruiyot, Tokyo Olympics 1500m silver medalist as he gets promoted to a senior position at his workplace....
Wanini Kireri: The woman disruptor behind major reforms in Kenyan prisons
Jun 16, 2021 at 07:50 PM
Wanini Kireri is the Senior Assistant Commissioner General of Prisons in Kenya, a mother of one, a professional counsellor and an author of a book titled The Disruptor, which descr...