Thursday, October 29, 2020

Sri Lanka mulls house arrests as prisons exceed capacity by 184 percent

COLOMBO (News1st) Sri Lanka’s prisons department is mulling alternative punishments such as house arrests, as prisons exceeded their capacity by a staggering 184.6 percent in 2019, a government report showed. The overpopulation of prisons last year was the highest in at least two decades, according to available data, and has caused “depression” among inmates and […]

Sri Lanka mulls house arrests as prisons exceed capacity by 184 percent

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