10 million rupees damage to Welikada Prison due to inmates' protest

The Prison Engineering Division has estimated that the Chapel section of the Welikada Prison has suffered a loss of around Rs. 10 million due to the protest staged by the inmates, the Prisons Department said.

 

Prisons Spokesman Chandana Ekanayake said that a group of long-serving prisoners who had launched a protest on the roof top of the Chapel section of the Welikada Prison demanding a general pardon, had ended the protest on Wednesday .

 

The Spokesman said that prison tactical force had managed to get the eight protesting inmates down from the rooftop  in a tactical manner without causing any harm to them .