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The Department of Prisons is tasked with ensuring that custodial sentences (imprisonment) and non-custodial sentences and orders (home detention, supervision, community work and release on conditions) imposed by Sri Lankan Courts are administered in a safe, secure, humane and effective way.
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The Welikada Prison (Sinhala: වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරය; also known as the Magazine Prison) is a maximum-security prison and the largest prison in Sri Lanka. It was built in 1841 by the British colonial government under Governor Campbell. The prison covers an area of 48 acres (190,000 m 2). It is overcrowded with about ...
Mahara Prison is a maximum security prison, and is one of the largest prisons in Sri Lanka. Situated in the town of Mahara in the Western Province, it was built in 1875 by the British colonial government to ease the congestion at the Slave Island prison. [1] [2] It was used to house the prisoners employed in crushing stones at the Mahara quarry.
The prison facilities also include onsite accommodation for 140 prison officers and their families, a hospital, fire station, 100 person cafeteria, and lecture halls. It has a three-storey indoor sport complex, with outdoor volleyball and netball courts, a 7-lane swimming pool and a sports field, with a 4,000 m (13,000 ft) track.
Before other landmarks were built, some claim that the Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque was recognised as the landmark of Colombo by sailors approaching the port. In 1975 the mosque, with the assistance of the Haji Omar Trust, [ 3 ] purchased a number of the adjoining properties and commenced building an expansion to the mosque to increase its capacity to ...
Bogambara Prison was a maximum security prison and the second largest prison in the country after Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After operating for 138 years, the prison was closed on 1 January 2014, and the inmates were transferred to the new Dumbara prison complex in Pallekele .
Bogambara Prison; M. Mahara Prison; W. Welikada Prison This page was last edited on 1 February 2020, at 00:44 (UTC). Text is available under ... Prisons in Sri Lanka.