Inmates to see prison upgrade from next month
The Government will open the newly-constructed state-of-the-art prison in Angunakolapelessa next month and will also relocate the highly congested Welikada prison to Horana, providing more room for inmates.
Minister of Justice Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, moving the Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill second reading yesterday in Parliament, said Welikada houses 17,000 inmates out of which 50% were youths who are punished for drug-related offences. The Minister said the relocation o