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Women behind bars: Raising children in Nairobi’s Langata Prison

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CCTV’s Lindy Mtongana goes inside the Lang’ata Women’s Correctional Facility to meet some of the inmates.

She speaks to women who have given birth behind bars about their children, and the options available to them. The Kenyan government allows children to remain in prison with their mothers until the age of four.

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