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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] Although no executions have been carried out since 23 June 1976, death sentences continue to be handed down by the High and Supreme Courts for murder and drug trafficking convictions. [ 2 ]
Life imprisonment is not used in all countries; Portugal was the first country to abolish life imprisonment, in 1884, [3] and all other Portuguese-speaking countries also have maximum imprisonment lengths, as well as all Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas except for Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Chile and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Other ...
Prison Headquarters, Colombo Sri Lanka Prisons Emergency Action and Tactical Force; The Centre for Research and Training in Corrections; Maximum security prisons - 4 Angunakolapelessa Prison (est. 2017) Welikada Prison (est. 1841) Bogambara/Dumbara Prison (est. 2013) Bogambara Prison (est. 1876 - cl. 2014) Mahara Prison (est. 1875) Remand ...
Article 291A and 291B of the Penal Code of Sri Lanka restricts expressions made with the deliberate intent of hurting religious sentiments of a person. It carries a penalty of up to 2 years of imprisonment. Furthermore, the ICCPR Act and the Prevention of Terrorism Act has been used by the authorities to protect religion from criticism and ...
The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of legal systems of Roman-Dutch law , English law , Kandian law , Thesavalamai and Muslim law .
The Ministry of Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional Reforms [2] [a] is the cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for the implementation of policies, plans and programmes for the administration of the country's justice system, and thereby administers its courts and prisons.
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. [5]
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 .