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The African nation's prison population declined as judicial hearings moved online.
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The African nation's prison population declined as judicial hearings moved online.
The pinstripe suit Isaac Kimaru wears to work inside Kenya's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison lacks the grandeur of bespoke tailoring often donned by law school graduates in courts around the world. Like those he advises, the slender paralegal is subject to the unmistakable black and white stripes of incarceration. For about a decade, life in prison is all that Kimaru has known. The son of a teacher whose father died when he was ten-years-old, Kimaru said he came from humble means in Kenya. At 25, he described being in his second year of law school when he began spending time with "bad compan...