An Analysis of Probation Service Order and Its Application in Kenya

Omboto, John Onyango

doi:10.4236/jss.2022.104008

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“…The study adopted a descriptive research design. According to Omboto (2013), descriptive research studies are designed to obtain pertinent and precise information concerning the current status of phenomena and, whenever possible, to draw a valid general conclusion from the facts discovered. This is well within the realms of Mugenda & Mugenda's (2008) observation that surveys can be used to explain or explore the existing status of two or more variables at a given time.…”

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“…In Kenya, NGOs have helped some inmates with various tools and equipment they use in various vocational pieces of training. They also provide tool kits to prisoners upon release so that they may use them to start a new life outside prison upon release from prison (Omboto, 2013). This practice of tool provision is greatly encouraged by the prison authority with the hope that offenders will use them to start workshops.…”

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“…The number of those convicted under the criminal justice system of Kenya has significantly increased owing to various socio-economic dynamics. In recent years, management at correctional facilities in Kenya has directed significant focus and resources in offender rehabilitation programs to help offenders adopt into law-abiding citizens and turn away from anti-social behavior (Omboto, 2013). The ultimate goal of sentencing and containment in prisons is not only to punish the offender and deter others but also to aid in rehabilitation, denunciation, protection of the community, or a combination of two or more of the stated points (Gelb & Hoel, 2008).…”

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Assessment of the Influence of Prisons Service Training Programs on Inmate’s Rehabilitation at Kisumu Maximum Prison: Kenya

Hassan¹,

Solomon²

2023

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Rehabilitation is composed of a number of different types of interventions, which are employed in varying degrees to provide purposeful activity for prisoners. They are to challenge offending behavior, provide basic education to tackle illiteracy and innumeracy and equip prisoners with life and work skills. The Prison Service in Kenya is charged with the task of rehabilitating inmates as they serve their sentences within the confines of the prison homes. The Prison service mandate is to contain offenders in safe custody, rehabilitate and reform them, facilitate the administration of justice, and promote prisoners' opportunities for social reintegration. It is hoped that the information obtained through the study may help come up with prison service policies for inmates and create rehabilitation programs relevant to the needs of individual inmates. This study was based on Psychoanalytic Theory. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The research was carried out in Kisumu Maximum prison, Kisumu County. The study uses a sample size of 25 respondents. The study concludes that inmate's rehabilitation is multi-faceted and a product of many programs, such as vocational skills training, educational programs, socio-psychological programs, and spiritual and agricultural programs, among other roles, since prisons are places of rehabilitation. The study recommends what may be adopted to enhance proper rehabilitation measures for incarcerated inmates among the offender population in Kenya. The study also proposes to institute some recommendations that would be important to the prison department, other security agencies, intelligence operatives, and other researchers in the domain of international security.

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