^^ I saw this yesterday and thought it was an excellent gesture. The government should use this to show foreign nations and media what our forces have done in terms of rehabilitation.
Quote:Some 2,000 kilos of narcotics have been smuggled into Sri Lankan prisons last year, it was revealed in the 2017 Prison Headquarters report tabled in Parliament last week.
It said the narcotics which were detected inside prisons consisted of 78,210 grams of heroin, 614,700 grams of ganja , 6,100 grams of Charas and 136 tablets of intoxicants.
The report said 99 packets of heroin were smuggled into the Magazine Prison, 17 packets of narcotics to the Dumbara Prison, 14 into the Colombo Remand Prison, 10 into Welikada and three into the Galle Prison.
Some 614,700 grams of ganja were detected inside various prisons last year among them were 171,300 gm of Ganja inside Colombo Remand Prison, 7,100 gm inside Welikada, 1000 gm inside Dumbara and 1600 gm inside the Negombo Prisions.
The report also revealed that 136 tablets of intoxicants had been smuggled into prisons last year among them were 77 tablets inside Welikada, 44 inside Colombo Remand Prison, 10 inside Negombo, 20 inside Mahara, 48 inside Dumabara and three in Galle.
The report also revealed that 53 mobile phones had been smuggled inside prisons with seven inside Welikada, seven into the Colombo Remand Prison, three into Magazine, 23 into Negombo Prision, two into Kalutara Klutara and 11 into Galle Prison. It said some 90 SMSs had been exchanged by the inmates in 2017. Some 29 SMSs from Welikada, 11 from Colombo Remand Prison 23 from Negombo,two from Kalutara and 11 from Galle.
The report also revealed that 104 prisoners have escaped last year while 48 of them re-arrested while there were 122,079 prisoners in Sri Lanka as of December 31, 2017 out of which 22,867 were inmates convicted by courts of law and 99,212 were suspects.
^^ Not surprising at all, it's well known for years now, you can get anything inside the prisons ifyou have the money and connections. Even prison authorities are fully involved in this. What use is tabling statistics in parliament if the law makers are not doing anything about it. It's nothing new and it's been known for decades.
Balumgala guys are doing great work. I don't listen to radio that much, but it must be the best program around.
That episode on Ruwanwalle fake hamuduruwa was great. Some hilarious phone calls.
I was listening to it a couple of weeks ago. There's a guy posing as a doctor who holds a high ranked position in ministry of health trying to hoodwink nurses by taking their money saying he can get them transferred to hospitals they want. Everything is done over the phone. Payment done by bank transfer/deposit. Nurses training school is called NTS. Funny thing is this guy calls it NTC (National Transport Commission) LOL. Apparently he was doing the same thing with school teachers a few years ago posing as a high ranked official in ministry of education before Balumgala exposed him.
I listen to it on youtube while driving or so..whenever i get a chance. Great programme. Sometimes it amuses me how some people fall for some cheap tricks.