SEX ATTACKS BEHIND BARS

Male rape is also rampant in Kenya prisons, which Justice Emanuel O’kubasu once described as ‘death chambers’.

 According to Human Rights Watch, 22 per cent of male inmates have been raped at least once during their incarceration.

An officer assigned to Industrial Area Remand Prison says it is a ‘culture’ that prison authorities turn a blind eye to it. 

“When a new guy walks into a cell, the prisoners sometimes fight over him and the winner turns the new inmate into his ‘wife’. Most men who have been raped in prison also never talk about it. They don’t report their attackers,” he adds.

According to a research paper by Tjaden & Thoennes, 2006, about three per of men have experienced rape at some point in their life.

 The reports states that 71 per cent of male victims were first raped before their 18th birthday. 16.6 per cent of them were 18-24 years old, while 12.3 per cent were 25 or older.

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