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  • Ranjan hospitalised
    Former Member of Parliament Ranjan Ramanayake, who was convicted of Contempt of Court and was serving time at the Angunakolapelessa Prison has been admitted to the Colombo...
  • No parole for rowdy prison inmates
    The Prisons Department has decided not to recommend any inmate, who engage in rooftop protests or behaves violently or disturbs the prison administration, for consideration...
  • Two prison inmates do well at O/Ls
    Two inmates at the Colombo Magazine Prison including a former LTTE cadre have passed the GCE Ordinary Level Examination 2020 with excellent grades.A young suspect detained...
  • Prison rumpus: Statements recorded from officials, inmates
    The Commissioner General of Prisons (Administration and Rehabilitation) Chandana Ekanayake said yesterday (17) that statements have been recorded from 15 prison officials and...
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  • Jailer who provided a mobile phone to MP Rishad, transferred
    Prison Headquarters has taken steps to transfer a jailor of the Magazine Prison for providing remanded Parliamentarian Rishard Bathiudeen with a mobile phone. MP Bathiudeen was found using a...
  • Bathiudeen throws out mobile
    Magazine Prison officers have found remanded MP Rishard Bathiudeen using a mobile phone in his cell on September 1.The Chief Jailor and another jailor had witnessed the incident where the MP had...
  • Potta Naufer tests positive
    Mohamed Niyas Naufer alias Potta Naufer, who has been sentenced to death and is being held in the Boossa High Security Prison, has been infected with the Coronavirus. He was taken to the...
  • 30 high profile inmates transferred to Boossa prison
    The Prisons Department has moved 30 prisoners who are involved in organised crime to the Boossa High Security Prison. According to Prison spokesman Chandana Ekanayake, these organized criminals...
  • Drugs in towel
    The Prison Intelligence Unit has succeeded in apprehending a woman who attempted to smuggle drugs to the Welikada prison.This woman in question had come to the prison guards post opposite the...
  • Eight suspects in Bond Scam subjected to PCR tests
    The eight suspects, including former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, who were remanded by courts in connection with the bond scam, have been subjected to PCR tests yesterday.Commissioner General...
  • Smartphone found from A’pelessa Prison
    The Prison Intelligence Unit on a tip off yesterday found a smartphone near the Special Section ‘Y’, where MP Ranjan Ramanayake and several other inmates are housed in the Angunakolapelessa Prison....
  • Selfie with MP: No visitors for Ranjan
    Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Ranjan Ramanayake, serving a four year prison sentence with hard labour for Contempt of Court has been banned from meeting visitors for two weeks after pleading guilty to...
  • COVID-19 vaccine for Prison Officers
    The COVID-19 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine will be given to Prison Officers from today (16) onwards, Prison Media Spokesman Commissioner Chandana Ekanayake said.Under the first stage, the vaccine will...
  • Prison Guards’ Assn. President suspended
    The President of the Prison Guards’ Association has been suspended for publishing a provocative letter using the official letterhead of the Association in his facebook page protesting against the...
  • COVID-19 prisoners to be sent to one prison
    Minister of State for Prison Management and Prisoner Rehabilitation Lohan Ratwatte has proposed that prisoners infected with COVID-19 be sent to one prison in order to make it easier for authorities...
  • Shani admitted to IDH
    Former Director of the CID Shani Abeysekera, who was admitted to the Gallella Hospital for COVID 19 patients from the Welikada Prison was transferred back to the Colombo IDH Hospital yesterday (27)...
  • Over 600 prisoners to be released
    The Department of Prisons has taken steps to release 606 prisoners, serving time for minor offences, under a Presidential amnesty.Prisoners who have been imprisoned for minor misdemeanors are being...
  • Over 800 COVID-19 infections reported from prisons
    The number of COVID-19 infections reported from prisons has risen to 821.The number of recoveries so far is 116 and two detainees has died.The number of new patients reported yesterday was 31 and 14...
  • 609 inmates, 43 prison officers infected:
    COVID-19 infected cases from the prisons has increased to 652 with 35 newly reported cases yesterday.This includes 609 inmates and 43 prison officers.These new cases have been reported from Boossa,...