Kakiika Prisoners Sleep In Turns

By Hillary Nsambu INMATES in Kakiika prison in Mbarara sleep in turns, leading to respiratory ailments, the Judiciary news up-date has revealed. In its latest weekly bulletin that came out on June 13, it said: "When a team of donors and government officials visited Kakiika Government Prison, they found that it was overcrowded, with 736 inmates instead of 117." According to the judiciary bulletin, the team also found three families of police officers sharing one small room at Mbarara police barracks. The Uganda Prisons Public Relations Officer, Mrs Mary Kaddu, on Friday confirmed what the team found at Kakiika. Kaddu said Kakiika, like other urban prisons in the country, is overcrowded due to the big number of people on remand. "Urban prisons, unlike farm prisons (rural prisons), are normally congested because of the many remand prisoners," she said. Ends