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