Chiefs and Commissioners General of Correctional Services from over 30 countries are gathering in Nairobi for a High-Level Consultative Workshop focused on implementing the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) resolutions on prisons and conditions of detention.
This is part of efforts to reform prison systems across Africa.
The three-day workshop, hosted by the Government of Kenya in collaboration with the ACHPR’s Special Rapporteur on Prisons and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), aims to tackle persistent challenges within African correctional systems, including overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure, and weak rehabilitation frameworks.
Presiding over the official opening, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Public Service, Human Capital Development, and Special Programmes, Geoffrey Ruku, emphasized the urgency of reforming prisons not merely as detention centers, but as institutions of rehabilitation, human dignity, and social reintegration.
“The ACHPR resolutions provide a critical framework that challenges us to reflect deeply on the state of our correctional facilities and to act decisively,” said Ruku.
“This workshop is a clarion call to transform our systems into models of humane treatment, respect, and rehabilitation.”
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