The Hon. Harshana Nanayakkara, Attorney-at-Law
A committee involving the Prisons Department was appointed to examine prison overcrowding and has already met. The judiciary, prisons, police, and other relevant agencies are expected to submit a report within a month with proposals to reduce congestion, after which the Government plans to implement the recommendations.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 To examine the overcrowding issue, we appointed a committee two weeks ago with the participation of the Prisons Department. It met yesterday. Within a month, the judiciary, prisons, police and all relevant agencies will submit a report to me with proposals to reduce overcrowding. Thereafter, we expect to implement those proposals. That is how we plan to ease the congestion.
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