ANGOLA PRISON, LOUISIANA - OCTOBER 14, 2013: A prisoner's hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm" is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named Angola after the former plantation that occupied this territory, which was named for the African country that was the origin of many enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana in slavery times. This is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States[with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance, and wardens. It is located on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) property that was previously known as the Angola Plantations and bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
Drama was on Saturday witnessed at the Kakamega Main Prison after one of the inmates applied faeces all over his body and climbed to the rooftop.
The prisoner, according to officials who spoke to Citizen Digital, was protesting against allegedly having been served food he deemed too little for him.
He, however, later climbed down from the roof after a few hours of protest following pleas from the prison officers, also complaining that the sun had become a little too hot for him to keep on.
The Prison Commander Japhet Onchiri said the man is being held at the facility over charges of robbery with violence as well as murder.
Onchiri further took the opportunity to warn Kenyans against falling prey to con messages reportedly sent by inmates asking them for money
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