Prison Overcrowding Crisis

Sri Lanka's prison system is experiencing significant overcrowding with approximately 39,000 inmates held across facilities. Parliamentary committees are conducting inspections of major prisons including Welikada, Colombo Remand, and others to assess conditions related to overcrowding, sanitation, and infrastructure.

Parliament finally discovered prisons are overcrowded by doing what they do best—forming a committee to inspect the problem they've known about for years. Turns out 39,000 inmates in facilities designed for way fewer people is awkward, who knew? Next week's breakthrough: a taskforce to confirm that water is wet.