For Albert Kweyu, a tragic encounter with a child one Sunday morning leads to a jail sentence without the option of a fine. In this prison diary, Kweyu tells the sordid story of life behind bars. He lays bare the rampant corruption, moral depravity and beastility that prison conditions breed. It is indeed an indictment of a penal system that subjects human beings to living conditions and treatment that one would not wish on even the lowliest of creatures. 

Written in the humorous style that has established Wahome Mutahi as Kenya's leading satirist, The Jail Bugs disturbs while at the same time gripping the reader from beginning to end: