ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Prisons Act
72. Appointment and powers of visiting justices
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
72. Appointment and powers of visiting justices
(1)The Cabinet Secretary shall, from time to time, appoint by notice in the Gazette fit and proper persons to be visiting justices for each prison.(2)The District Commissioner, the resident magistrate and all administrative officers in any district in which a prison is situate shall be ex officio visiting justices of that prison.(3)A visiting justice may at any time visit a prison in respect of which he is a visiting justice.(4)A visiting justice may inspect the several wards, cells, yards, punishment cells and other apartments and divisions of the prison, inspect and test the quality and quantity of the prisoners’ food, hear the complaint, if any, of any prisoner, and question any prisoner or prison officer, and shall ascertain so far as possible whether this Act, and the rules made thereunder, and the prison standing orders, are adhered to, and shall call the attention of the officer in charge to any irregularity that may be observed in the working of the prison or in the treatment of any prisoner confined therein, and shall exercise and perform such other duties as may be prescribed.(5)The visiting justices to any prison may appoint a chairman and may act as a Board of Visiting Justices and may, at the end of each year or at any other convenient time, render a report to the Cabinet Secretary on the state of the prison to which they are visiting justices.