Kenyan prisoners play chess for fun behind bars and to help with rehabilitation

October 6, 2026
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Kenya’s Department for Correctional Services has introduced chess across the country’s prisons since 2024, in one of the most prominent institutional carceral chess programs in Africa | 100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA

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