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The Hon. Mujibur Rahuman

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Colombo· 21 January 2026 ·Oral question: Oral Question No. 2 (812/2025) - Prison overcrowding

Justice & Human Rights
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Mujibur Rahuman asked the Minister of Justice and National Integration to provide details on the most recent committee appointed to examine prison overcrowding in Sri Lanka. He sought the committee’s appointment date, membership, recommendations to reduce overcrowding, and the measures planned for implementing those recommendations, or an explanation if such information could not be provided.

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¶ 01 Question No. 2 - 812/2025, to the Minister of Justice and National Integration:

¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House— (i) the date on which a committee was last appointed to study the issue of overcrowding in prisons in Sri Lanka; (ii) names of the members of that committee; (iii) recommendations made by that committee to reduce overcrowding in prisons; and (iv) measures that will be taken to implement those recommendations? (b) If not, why?

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Hansard, Wednesday, 21 January 2026 ·No. 23242 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Mujibur Rahuman. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 January 2026. No. 23242. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2018