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Mark Meechan ( pronounced [miːkæn]) (born 19 October 1987 [1]) is a Scottish YouTuber, comedian, [5] and former candidate for the European Parliament. [6] [7] He uses the pseudonym Count Dankula . Meechan received press coverage when he posted a video showing him teaching his girlfriend's dog how to raise its paw in the manner of a Nazi ...
The Welikada Prison ( Sinhala: වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරය; also known as the Magazine Prison) is a maximum-security prison and the largest prison in Sri Lanka. It was built in 1841 by the British colonial government under Governor Campbell. The prison covers an area of 48 acres (190,000 m 2 ). It is overcrowded with about ...
The Department is also responsible for the transportation of prisoners within the country with the assistance of the Sri Lanka Police. Facilities. Prison Headquarters, Colombo Sri Lanka Prisons Emergency Action and Tactical Force; The Centre for Research and Training in Corrections; Maximum security prisons - 4 Angunakolapelessa Prison (est. 2017)
Bogambara Prison was a maximum security prison and the second largest prison in the country after Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After operating for 138 years, the prison was closed on 1 January 2014, and the inmates were transferred to the new Dumbara prison complex in Pallekele. In 2019, the government declared the prison site would ...
Maru Sira. Dedduwa Jayathungalage " D.J. " Siripala ( Sinhala: දෙද්දුවා ජයතුංගලාගේ සිරිපාල; 1949 – August 7, 1975), also known by the pseudonym Maru Sira ( Maru: deadly, Sira: Short form of Siripala), was a Sri Lankan young criminal and bandit active from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s. He ...
The prison facilities also include onsite accommodation for 140 prison officers and their families, a hospital, fire station, 100 person cafeteria, and lecture halls. It has a three-storey indoor sport complex, with outdoor volleyball and netball courts, a 7-lane swimming pool and a sports field, with a 4,000 m (13,000 ft) track.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Sri Lanka. [1] Although no executions have been carried out since 23 June 1976, death sentences continue to be handed down by the High and Supreme Courts for murder and drug trafficking convictions. [2]
Prisoners sentenced to death by Sri Lanka. People who were ultimately executed by Sri Lanka should be placed in Category:People executed by Sri Lanka. For people of Sri Lankan nationality sentenced to death, see Category:Sri Lankan prisoners sentenced to death.