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Prisoners guard their jails
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 - 4:04 AM SL Time
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A severe dearth of jail guards has led to the Prisons authorities assigning prisoners to guard the main entrances of some prisons.
Minister of Justice Dilan Perera told The Island yesterday (28) that he had learnt about this sad state of affairs very recently and believed that some officials were delaying the recruitment process though financial provision had been made available.
There are 26 prisons holding 29,000 prisoners, including those on remand. The normal cadre of the prisons department was 5,000 guards and officers but about 1,000 of them had retired or had resigned for various reasons, Commissioner General of Prions Vajira Wijegunawardena said.
Dilan Perera said if this state of affairs continues, even the administration of the prisons could be given to prisoners. At present, there were about 2,000 vacancies in the Prisons Department and these remained unfilled due to the negligence of some of the prisons officials though the ministry had wanted all vacancies to be filled immediately, to prevent a breakdown in the prisons administration.
However, interviews were being held currently to recruit a small number of prison guards but all officials in the department had to cooperate to find out the exact number of vacancies and take steps to fill the vacancies as there was provision made in the votes of the department to fill the vacancies he said.
The Commissioner General of Prisons said he admitted that there were about a 1,000 vacancies but he had requested the ministry for approval to recruit guards and was waiting for a response.
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elephanthouse
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 29 Jan 2008 06:45:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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| I can already see Velu =promoted= as future prisoners guard, haha. It fully corresponds to his current job description at the HELLAM prison. |
Ramz
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 29 Jan 2008 08:37:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hehehehe....very funny title and story....
Prisoners guard their jails.... I think it happens only in our beatiful Lanka.... Gypsis Sunil Perera should consider this in his next song... eheh |
elephanthouse
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29 Jan 2008 09:19:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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Yes, in business environment this is called
flattening the organisation
empowerment
delegation of authority
It is also a nice way to avoid prison over occupancy.
Some guys want to try out what they've just learned in a crash management course.
Let's hope Mr. Brown will give us some feedback re this subject in a couple of months. Who knows, soon the prison managers might complain about the =luck of customers=.
Not sure whether this =business model= works in SL. |
raigamakolla
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 29 Jan 2008 09:51:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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| In a country gone to dogs, what else would you expect??/ |
alwaysalion
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 29 Jan 2008 13:51:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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| How about recruiting Dr.Mervin Silva and goons? |
kiora
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 30 Jan 2008 00:00:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Who would you have guarding the prison politicians or prisoner's them self.Second option might be bit more reliable than first.What would be better is put all politicians in the prison and let other prisoner to guard them. |
sorinis
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30 Jan 2008 08:35:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Replace these guys with all the security staff of all politicians,its well befitting -Birds of a feather flock together. |
snake2
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 30 Jan 2008 12:23:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Alwaysalion,
How about recruiting Dr.Mervin Silva and goons?
Kudu Nuwan for prison warden! |
AstonMartin
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31 Jan 2008 00:52:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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I didnt think that Sri Lanka will become such a country when I came here couple of years ago.
How about recruiting Dr.Mervin Silva and goons?
That is bad idea. Then prison will become like ''Sri Lanka ruled by Mahinda and MEGA GoSL''.
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