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India News: It’s time to make them more humane, especially since thousands of young men and women, mostly poor, illiterate and backward, are being held purposeles

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock The findings of the National Study of Prisons undertaken by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka have been discussed in numerous articles since its publication in December 2020. The study was conducted over nearly two years with a team of 33 persons. Data was gathered through inspections of 20 prisons within the purview of the Department of Prisons and by administering questionnaires to nearly 3,000 prisoners and conducting over 300 interviews with prisoners and prison officers. Senior officers of the Prison Department and key public officials, including the...

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Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 12:35 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Thursday Instructed authorities to look humanely at grievances of the prisoners and address them immediately by providing necessary assistance. The President noting that more than 12,000 people are incarcerated due to drug addiction, emphasized the need to immediately formulate a rehabilitation program for them. The President made this observation at a special discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (10) to probe the shortcomings and problems in ...

Justice system, working in a bipartisan way to do things like end the failed war on drugs, end the money bail system and add the kind of prison reforms and sentencing reforms that we need to see that will correct the failures of the past. the most important thing here is that we recognize that we have to treat each other with respect, all of us as fellow americans regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender and our politics. that kind of leadship starts at the top. as president i will usher in a 21st century white house that actually represents the interests of all americans first and fore...