[Rev. 2012]
Prisons
CAP. 90
PART X – OFFENCES IN RELATION TO PRISONERS
58. Trafficking
Any person without lawful authority who—
(a) conveys, supplies or causes to be supplied or conveyed to any
prisoner, whether within or without a prison, or hides or places for the
use of any prisoner, any letter or document, or any intoxicating liquor,
tobacco, bhang or hemp, drug, opiate, money, clothing, provisions or
any other articles whatsoever; or
(b) brings or attempts to bring by any means whatsoever into any prison,
or places or attempts to place where prisoners shall labour, any letter
or document, or any intoxicating liquor, tobacco, bhang or hemp, drug,
opiate, money, clothing or provisions; or
(c) brings or attempts to bring out of any prison or conveys from any
prison any letter or document; or
(d) communicates with any prisoner without lawful authority,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
one year or to a fine not exceeding four thousand shillings or to both such fine and
such imprisonment.
59. Prohibited articles
(1) Any person who without lawful authority brings or introduces in any manner
into a prison a prohibited article, or who without lawful authority takes out or
removes from a prison a prohibited article, shall be guilty of an offence and liable
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two
thousand shillings or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(2) For the purpose of this section, a “prohibited article” shall be any article
contained in the list which shall be fixed in a conspicuous place outside every prison
and shall be signed by the Commissioner or by the officer in charge on his behalf
and shall contain a list of articles which the Commissioner has decided shall be
prohibited. The list shall be written in English, Swahili and the language which the
officer in charge considers to be the local vernacular.
60. Seizure of prohibited articles, etc.
Whether or not any criminal or disciplinary proceedings are commenced against
any person, any prison officer may seize any article found to be unlawfully in a
prison and the officer in charge may order its confiscation and declare it to be
forfeited.
61. Trespassing
(1) Any person who without lawful authority enters or remains within the
boundaries of a prison or any place where prisoners are working shall be guilty of
an offence and, if he refuses to leave when requested to do so, may be arrested
without warrant by a prison officer or a police officer.
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