Kamiti among the Top 15 Scariest Prisons In The World

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Been watching the show Inside World's Toughest Prisons that follows falsely convicted ex-prisoner Raphael Rowe around various prisons where he gets locked inside with his filming crew to get the story firsthand.

Wueh! Usiwahe taka ingia jela mtu wangu.

Anyway, my curiosity was pricked and I started checking out some of them online to verify if all the madness is true. In my quest, I came across this entrant which is not covered in the show...

3. This Nairobi Prison Is Home To Brutal Events

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The Kamiti Maximum Security prison in Nairobi is widely known to be an extremely brutal place. The facility’s capacity is around 1,400 people, but the actual number of convicts is more than 4,000. The buildings lack a water supply system, so the inmates have to carry it in tanks manually every day under the burning sun. Worst of all, the G-block of the Kamiti prison is the root of everything gruesome in the complex, like rapes, sodomy and endless violence.

When smartphones become widely popular, some videos of the horror inside emerged. In 2008, police forces attempted to find and take every single smartphone from the inmates, and the raid escalated in a massive beating, which some of the prisoners recorded on video. The place has seen a cholera epidemic and other preventable diseases.

For the full list, check out: https://www.factswt.com/top-15-scariest-and-most-dangerous-prisons-in-the-world/
 
Hata ukipewa vip cell bado uko jela na huyu jama haijafika Kodiaga kisumu huko ndio moto kuliko kamiti,a disclaimer; sijawahi kuingia jela kama mahabusu.
 
I almost died at Manyani Prison, ex-inmate painfully narrates
Prisoners 'bid' for new inmates with the highest bidder turning the ‘newbie’ into a wife.
In Summary
• Manyani prison is the fifth largest maximum prison in Kenya located in the harsh wilderness of Tsavo National Park in Taita Taveta County.
• Ismael recounts how he ate rotten beans and uncooked maize that almost led to his demise.
Omar Ismael, 64, charged with defilement, was found innocent by the appellate court in 2017
Omar Ismael, 64, charged with defilement, was found innocent by the appellate court in 2017
Image: EZEKIEL AMINGA
Omar Ismael,64, was convicted for defiling a 13-year-old girl in 2007. The only evidence was her word against his.
The former artist spent 10 years in prison telling everybody he was innocent and appealing to the higher court to review his case.
"In 2017 I was released through a lengthy and costly appeal," Ismael said.



He served his sentence in four prisons - Kamiti, Industrial area, Kitengela and Manyani.
He, however, says Manyani Prisons was his worst prison. He served in Manyani prisons for one year between 2016-2017.
"I served Manyani for one year and I almost died," he said.
Ismael recounts how he ate rotten beans and uncooked maize that almost led to his demise.

"I had a serious stomach disorder. You can imagine at 62 years with prison conditions. Any sickness took a toll on me," he said.
He was rushed to hospital in a very critical condition and luckily survived.
"I was a known maestro artist, so the word went round I was dead. I thought I would die for I witnessed six people die three days after joining the prison," he said.


Manyani Prison officer-in-charge Bison Madegwa in a phone call interview with the Star, however, says the facility's conditions have improved.
"Inmates now live to our best of standards. They are comfortable,"Madegwa said
Joseph Irungu, alias Jowie, during a past event at Kamiti.
Joseph Irungu, alias Jowie, during a past event at Kamiti.
Image: PATRICK VIDIJA
Joseph Irungu, alias Jowie, was this week transferred to Manyani Maximum Security Prison in Voi.
According to a senior officer who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, Jowie was transferred from Kamiti to Manyani prisons after he was found with contraband during a random search.
HARSH EXPERIENCE
Enter a prison and brace yourself for the harsh experience of inmates imprisoned in colonial times.
Not much has changed since the 1900s in terms of facilities and, many say in treatment.
ABOUT MANYANI
Manyani prison is the fifth largest maximum prison in Kenya located in the harsh wilderness of Tsavo National Park in Taita Taveta County.
It was established in the early 1950s by the British colonial government as a holding camp for Mau Mau detainees.
At some point, it held nearly 15,0000 Mau Mau suspects. Today, it's one of the most dreadful prisons in the country.
Manyani gates
Manyani gates
Image: COURTESY
HOMOSEXUALITY
Ismael says when prisoners arrive at Manyani, prisoners 'bid' for new inmates with the highest bidder turning the ‘newbie’ into a wife.
There is a prisoner in charge of allocating sleeping quarters to new inmates.
So, when you come in as first-timer and are still in the holding area, the prisoners in charge — they called them 'Overall'— will be bribed with amounts ranging from Sh300 to Sh500.
The highest bidder will have the new prisoner assigned to his cell.
“Their preference is usually young, ‘yellow-yellow,’ plump men who are in prison for the first time."
When you get to the cell, which is usually full, your ‘husband’ will let you share his mattress, food and cigarettes. But come night, you will have to pay back.
SLEEPING HALLS
Ismael said the sleeping halls are squalid, packed with dozens of people and the smell of urine lingers in the humid, stifling air.
They slept on tattered mattresses as mosquitoes bite every piece of your uncovered flesh.
"The mattresses were torn, and 3 by 4 size shared by three people. If your neighbour turns you fall and sleep on the bare floor," he said.
LONELINESS
Due to its location, parents are relatives do not visit the inmates regularly.
"You just want freedom. No one came to visit me. It was lonely," Ismael recounts.
Behind heavily fortified prison's gates, about 57,000 men are confined in a world that for most are grey and violent.
It's a grim life. No family or friends, no privacy, no free will, filthy dorms crowded with dozens of men sleeping without mattresses, no proper toilets, living under the suspicious gaze of menacing guards.
But not for everyone.
Inmates with some money and influence in certain prisons use to acquire more.
Some with smarts and connections are able to live like royalty (relatively), with private cells, mattresses, flush toilets, satellite TV and other amenities. The food is good and liquor is available.
"In prison there are classes. If you have money, you enjoy luxury. You sleep on a mattress and eat good food," he said
 
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