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Maina wa Kinyatti writes in Kenya: A Prison Notebook

• The conditions that prisoners in Kenya endure are extremely barbaric. Every morning at 5 a.m., male prisoners are ordered out of the cells stark naked for internal body searches. The guards search their mouths and armpits, ears and nostrils.

• They pull, twist and squeeze their genitals. They order the prisoners to face the walls with their legs spread apart to examine their anuses for concealed weapons, money and other contraband. They use sharp sticks to probe the prisoners' rectums. In a sense, the.guards are more interested in prisoners' buttocks than in the search.

• They make sexual remarks: "Look at this one, his buttocks are two mountains, it is difficult to mount him... and look at this one, his arsehole is shaped like a woman's cunt... This one has a soft arse like his mother... " This monstrous drama is repeated every morning. It is a humiliating and degrading experience. (See Saxakali-Publications for more).

Things are pretty much the same for poor, minority, men and women all over the world, including the USA, UK and Canada, as the followings links show clearly. We've been covering this issue for several years now through publication of several articles in Saxakali Magazine:

• Exploiting Crime (1994)
• Save Mumia Abu Jamal (1995)
• Drugs, Minority Women & the US Prison Economy (1996)
• Minority Women Couriers:
  At the bottom of the Global Narcotics Economy (1997)
• Appeals to Saxakali for help from men and women wrongfully imprisoned by the state (2000-)
  Byrin Carr

For information on the Diallo, Louima, and other cases see our Crimes Against Minorities page. This Community Link-Ups web have related links to racism and women of color above; also check our home page, Saxakali.com, for more of our coverage on these important issues.

The following links combine the issues of institutionalized racism, gender discrimination, and drug policy, with the growth of a prison industrial complex within European dominated societies. The results are some of the worst practices of brutality and violations of human rights inflicted upon millions of people of color in so-called democratic countries. The US alone has 2,250,000 people in jail, 75% of whom are people of color. This is more people than those imprisoned in China & India combined, with populations of over two billion!!! Acting together, perhaps we can stop this booming industry of enslaving our fellow humans... best to act now, while we are still free!

Solutions and Revolutions:

• Free all non-violent "offenders"
• Free all men and women imprisoned on drug charges 
• Extend voting privileges to all residents, including the non-documented and prisoners
• Legalize drugs and restrict their use to adults, just like alcohol and cigarettes
• End the 48-hour rule which allows the police time to cover-up and concoct their crimes

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