Visitors not allowed at prisons

17 March 2020 02:17 pm Views - 880

The Prisons Department today said that all prison inmates in the country would not be permitted visitors, with effect from today, in order to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.

Commissioner of Prisons (Administration) Bandula Jayasinghe said no outsiders would be allowed to visit the inmates in prisons across the country, for a period of two weeks