The Department of Prisons has announced the transfer of superintendents and assistant superintendents across 16 major prison ...

A prison source added that another prisoner suffering from cancer had died on the same day while being transferred from Pallekele to Welikada Prison. “Since Pallekele Prison is located in the dry zone ...

They are unconvicted, not yet found guilty, but forced to live in the squalor and violent environment of remand prisons. In 2023, 138,117 remand prisoners entered jails and on average there are 17,000 ...