free jail birds

Get out of jail cards, a theory that is a myth unless you are playing the famous monopoly game. Its a rare card to find either in the game or the free world.
In the free world getting one of this cards or getting out of jail does not necessarily mean freedom. You are welcomed into the world of hostility, rejection and disdain from society.
you are viewed with contempt and lots of suspicion. Society will consider you a crook no matter what you were jailed for.Be it you were jailed for two weeks for loitering or for being drunk and disorderly. You wont be spared by the quick judgement by the so-called holier than thou society.
Every inmate is treated equally, they are all regarded as criminals even if they got there by mistake. People believe that whatever happens in prison does not really rehabilitate but harden criminals.
many people in Kenyan jails(Kenya prison service# ) do not belong there. They are victims of society, rejected by their own people. Imprisonment is viewed as being more of a punishment than rehabilitation. let us not be misled by the common belief that prisons are rehabilitation centers. They are centers for higher learning where young convicts become hardcore criminals, unless given proper guidance, this owing to the fact that in prison you have to use money to get even. This is either from the prison authorities or from fellow convicted prisoners.
sodomy and drug abuse are the order of the day. There runs cartels of drug trafficking more sophisticated than in the outside world, an irony given that this takes place under the watchful eye of the prison authorities. Some prisoners have even managed to build investments and raise families and even able to make millions in drug trafficking than they could have otherwise made if they were not in jail.
Ex-prisoners have many psychological, social and economic problems to overcome. They are reffered to as jailbirds a name that is often associated with the stigma that befalls them and their families. Their children as well as their wives cant get gainful employment as well as get financial assistance from the numerous institutions in Kenya. There is no clear cut approach to ex-prisoners thus many of them slide back to prison.
rehabilitation is a process that should start at the very beginning and end at the very end. Prisons rehabilitative programs are deemed to be shallow ended thus they are rendered ineffective.
a prisoner gets out of jail with a skill acquired through years of toil and practise only to end up just as irrelevant because of lack of capital or financial aid to start off.
Most NGOs are they are commonly reffered to,that make rounds in prisons are not necessarily doing any good to this convicts. they offer physio-spiritual counseling and then they never make followup. This is due to the numerous challenges including the fact that inmates fear rejection from society thus have low self esteem.
The truth be told, prison is a higher istitution of learning where first timers and small time crooks are taught the tricks of becoming big time robbers and murderers. In this society of man eat man, the strongest will survive. The monopoly game continues and this time you get a "get out of jail card"