In mid-January 2022, striking inmates at the Kamiti Maximum Prison in Nairobi County were badly beaten by officers after they held a protest over lack of food and restriction of movement in the facility. The protests erupted after the prison began rationing food to the inmates as a punitive measure after three terrorism convicts escaped from the facility, sparking public outrage. According to some of the inmates, they were going up to 24 hours without food, while some of them were placed in complete isolation. The prison’s boss refused the inmates’ request for a meeting and eventually some of the prisoners who participated in the protests were transferred to Naivasha Maximum Prison in Nakuru County.
