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# Most prisoners haven't been convicted
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/most-prisoners-havent-been-convicted/
- Published: 2026-07-10T08:07:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T06:53:53.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: chart, maintag-Chart, Week-26-2026

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Source: World Prison Brief (based on official national figures)

Sri Lanka’s prison crisis is increasingly a remand crisis. Nearly three-quarters of the country’s prisoners are in pre-trial or remand detention, up from less than half in 2015\.