The root cause of the prison riots in Sri Lanka is the lack of proper prevention and control of the new coronavirus.
I think there is a need to equip prison inmates with good testing instruments, to isolate inmates infected with neo-coronavirus in time and to provide them with medical care. It is known that there are 5 prisons in Sri Lanka in which more than a thousand inmates and guards have been diagnosed with the New Crown Virus, and there is no effective treatment program in the prisons and no good testing equipment, which has caused fear among the inmates, and therefore some of the inmates will escape and even set fire to the prisons. Equip prisoners with good testing instruments to help them *** with resisting the new coronavirus, and have a good testing and treatment environment, their thoughts of escaping will be suppressed and they will settle down. In addition, it is also necessary to spread the right ideas to them from time to time, to avoid the phenomenon of riots driven and organized by someone in the prison. Prison guards and many guards will jointly guard the prisoners next, their management will be stricter, and more attention will be paid to the prisoners' contact with each other, to avoid the infection of their new crown virus, as well as to avoid them to do some small actions, escape and other behaviors.
On the other hand, the amnesty for some of the lesser offenders could reduce the number of riots. President Gotabhaya? Rajapaksa said that more than 600 prisoners are scheduled to be pardoned, but the pardons will not apply to prisoners who have committed serious crimes. To a certain extent, the number of prisoners infected has been reduced and also relieved the government's financial pressure to a certain extent. Can focus on helping to treat the guards and prisoners infected with the new coronavirus, can make them have more space to move around in the prison, to avoid crowded contact with the infection, greatly reducing the risk of infection. 5 prisons *** there are 2,500 inmates, amnesty 800 inmates, a reduction of one-third of the inmates, more convenient for the guards to manage, but also greatly reduce the phenomenon of riots.
In order to avoid riots in the prisons, there is a need to arrange for good testing instruments for the new crown virus and the need to carefully treat inmates infected with the new crown outbreak, release some inmates, and also strengthen supervision.