The Hon. Sujeewa Dissanayake
Hon. Sujeewa Dissanayake asked the Minister of Justice and National Integration for detailed information on Sri Lanka’s prison system, including the first prison established, its initial inmate population, the current number and names of prisons, inmate numbers by gender in each prison, and the cell space allocated per inmate. He also requested specific details on the largest prison in the North-western Province, including its capacity and the average daily inmate population in August 2025, and asked for reasons if the information could not be provided.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Justice and National Integration:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House the— (i) name of the first prison that was established in Sri Lanka; (ii) number of inmates held in that prison when it commenced operations; (iii) number of prisons in Sri Lanka at present; (iv) names of the said prisons; (v) number of inmates currently held in each of the said prisons, separately for male and female inmates; and (vi) cell space allocated per inmate in a prison in square feet?
¶ 03 (b) Will he also inform this House the— (i) name of the largest prison in the North-western Province; (ii) maximum number of inmates that can be held in the said prison; and (iii) average number of inmates held in the said prison on a single day in August 2025?
¶ 04 (c) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 ·No. 22635 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Sujeewa Dissanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 October 2025. No. 22635. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29551