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Free phone call facilities to prison inmates

16 Oct 2020

Minister of State Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle has intervened to provide free telephone facilities to prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic to call their homes. Accordingly, detainees will be able to make free calls to their homes from today (16) in order to bridge inmates' inability to maintain contact with their relatives while the prison system is closed to outside parties. “Due to the current situation of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, relatives of inmates have lost the opportunity to visit their families. In such a situation the prisoners have their relatives Prison Reforms and Prison Reforms to allow inmates to speak to their homes through public telephones installed in prisons,” Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle, Specialist Minister of State for Prisoners Rehabilitation, has instructed the Prisons Department. The Minister has also instructed the prison administration to take care of the food and other needs of the inmates.


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