AN ANALYSIS OF AN EFFECTIVE AND REGULATED REHABILITATION POLICY FOR FEMALE PRISONERS IN SRI LANKA: CASE STUDY OF WELIKADA PRISON

Abstract

The Main Objective of the research is to analyze and evaluate the rehabilitation policy and practice for female prisoners in Sri Lanka and identify how they could be more effective and address existing loopholes in the current system. Although Sri Lanka did have a prison rehabilitation system all this while, it is important to find why the number of prisoners in Sri Lanka is on the rise, and this research has its base set on this research problem. Both primary data and secondary data were used in this study. The Welikada Prison was found to be the main research institute for this study. The primary data collection method for this study was a semi-structured interview. purposive sampling method was used for this study. Reports, statistics, research articles, and books published by the Department of Prisons as well as other theoretical and evidence-based research work published on this theme were used as secondary data for the research study. Inadequate rehabilitation for short-term prisoners, Funding Issues, Technological issues, Incarceration of innocent individuals, Lack of Resources for Mental Health Programmes and Counselling, Lack of Rehabilitation Officers, and Incomplete Follow-up Actions are the found main findings of the research