Move to upgrade Prisons Department

In a bid to increase the efficiency of the Prisons Department, regional headquarters would be set up, Prisons Commissioner General Maj Gen. Vajira Wiyayagunawardene said.

He said the department would be made more efficient through this decentralisation. Accordingly there will be headquarters for the western, southern, northern and north central regions.

He said the department is currently short of 4000 workers and the present staff has to work under difficult conditions having to work extra hours. Welfare facilities to prison officials too have been planned while every attempt will be made to transfer them to their home stations as far as possible, he said.