Over Rs.40 Bn spent for prisoner upkeep from 2017 to 2022

According to a report issued by the National Audit Office, the government has spent over Rs.40 billion between 2017 and 2022 on the maintenance of prisoners.

According to the reports, the government has to incur a huge expenditure for the prisoners including food, water, electricity, prison clothes, rehabilitation costs, and capital expenditure, and in the last year (2022) alone, it had to incur a cost of Rs.8.3 billion.

It is also revealed that the percentage of prisoners who have exceeded the capacity of the prisons has increased year by year in the comparison of prison records during the last seven years. The number of inmates in prisons has increased by a percentage of 146% in 2015, 149% in 2016, 168% in 2017, 199% in 2018, 213% in 2019, 147% in 2020, 139% in 2021 and 232% in 2022.

Due to the increase in the number of inmates, the Prison Department is facing many problems in providing adequate sanitary facilities in the prisons.

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