{"id":13941,"date":"2014-10-07T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namati.org\/?p=13941"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:01:06","slug":"kenyas-prison-paralegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namati.org\/news-stories\/kenyas-prison-paralegals\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News on Kenya\u2019s Prison Paralegals","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s ABC News has captured the groundbreaking work of Global Legal Empowerment Network member Kituo cha Sheria in the prison system in Kenya. The program, Foreign Correspondent, shows prisoner paralegals working to bring justice for those wrongly imprisoned \u2013 often without trial.<\/p>\n<p>Kituo\u2019s Aimee Ongeso told the filmmakers: \u201cIt is very challenging to go into areas that are seen as do not touch by the rest of the community, but when you come to a group of people who are ready to be empowered, who take up the knowledge with a thirst that you\u2019ve never seen before and are actually implementing the knowledge that you give them, it\u2019s fulfilling. When you\u2019re a human being, you\u2019re a human being irrespective of whether you\u2019re a prisoner or not. 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