Mobile phones are one of the most smuggled items into prisons. The Minister said that mobile phones smuggled into jails are being used by offenders to carry out various activities such as to harass victims and to carry out underworld operations.

The Minister said mobile phone jamming devices have already been fixed at the Welikada Prison and the outcome is a success

Therefoe, the government has decided to instal jammers in all prisons throughout the country from next year, he added.

The Minister was responding to a question raised by UNP MP Buddhika Pathirana.