Some female prisoners of Mtangani GK Prison in Malindi, Kilifi County of Kenya have begged the country’s government to institute new laws that will allow them to enjoy sexual intimacy with their visiting spouses.
One of the inmates, Sofia Swaleh who is serving a life sentence spoke on behalf of her fellow female prisoners.
“The Government, through the leadership of Kenyan prisons, should introduce a law that allows women serving lengthy jail terms enjoy sexual intimacy with their visiting husbands,” she said.
Mtangani GK Prison senior administrator, Purity Nkatha Muthaura who also spoke to K24 Digital, said it would be impossible to allow the female inmates or even the male inmates to enjoy conjugal rights except for a new law that allows for conjugal visits is passed by Parliament.
Reports say in 2014 a similar suggestion was made but the Government kicked against it, saying it was not being ready for it.
