UNDERSTANDING HOW SENTENCING WORKS
What remission means, mitigation, what rights survive beyond walls and options after conviction - What Most People Get Wrong By Ibalai Vallary Advocate Trainee · Ibalai Legal This one started with a question someone posted online “Jela huwa wanahesabu usiku na mchana kama separate days?” The answer is NO. However, that question opened a door to something bigger most Kenyans have no idea how sentencing and imprisonment actually work. From the moment, the judge says guilty, to what happens behind those prison walls and to what the law says you can still do about it. The moment the judge says “Guilty” The gavel comes down guilty. The sentence is pronounced ten years, fifteen years or life imprisonment. The room shifts, some people weep or some go silent. And the person in the dock and often their family in the gallery is left trying to process words they may not fully understand. ...