Caleb Amisi urges govt to secure jobs for trained inmates after release

Saboti MP Caleb Amisi has called on the government to ensure that inmates who undergo vocational training while incarcerated are placed in employment immediately upon their release.

Speaking during a visit to Kitale Annex, Women’s Prison, and Main Prison on Thursday, December 25, 2025, Amisi emphasised that the government has a responsibility to connect trained former prisoners with job opportunities to prevent them from returning to crime.

“Whether it is carpentry, masonry, brick making, whatever it is, it must be the responsibility of the government to take them out of prison and place them in jobs. Because we are not training them so they can go out and tarmac,” Amisi stated.

Legislative intervention

The Saboti MP revealed that he is working on a bill that would require the government to directly place trained ex-convicts into employment.

Amisi argued that if the government invests resources in training young people while they are in prison, it must ensure they are productively engaged after release to avoid recidivism.

“If you are training our youth in prison, we must get them out and ensure they go to work. So, the bill I am working on is that when people leave prison with training, the government places them in jobs directly,” he said.

Amisi emphasised that trained former inmates represent valuable human capital that should be utilised for national development rather than being left to struggle with unemployment.

“These are the people who will build the nation,” he reiterated.

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