The legs of prisoners hospitalized to be fettered

The legs of prisoners hospitalized to be fettered

It is reported by the Prison department authorities that the legs of  all prisoners and suspects who are  hospitalized owing to illnesses are to be  fettered.They would be exempted from this only if recommended against it by medical

advice.

The reason for this has been attributed to the fact that these prisoner patients on many instances had fled the hospitals they were warded in without the knowledge of the prison guards.

The media spokesman of the prison department Thushara Upuldeniya had added when inquiries were made on this matter that owing to this new fetter arrangement the escape of the prisoners after hospitalization is now at a low ebb.

In the previous year 2015 as inmates were not fettered statistics have revealed that 154 prisoners ha fled from hospitals they were warded in.