i) Overcrowding leading to poor living conditions e.g. sanitation.
ii) Disease outbreaks due to congestion and inadequate facilities.
iii) Mistreatment by prison warders . the 2001 King’ong’o torture.
iv) Food shortages, inadequate medical facilities and poor clothing.
v) Underpayment of warders and poor living conditions.
vi) Poor equipment/transport facilities. vehicles.
vii) Corruption where some prison warders are bribed to favour some
inmates or assist them to escape.
viii) Some inmate have become hardened hence difficult to rehabilitate.
steve williams answered the question on November 10, 2017 at 08:47
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