HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA - Annual report 2020 wellbeing of Sri Lankan migrant workers in destination countries and foreign migrant workers currently employed in Sri Lanka during the COVID19 pandemic. Members were also involved in the assessment carried out by the Commission of the disruption to education of school children as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially of the children sitting for the Grade 5 scholarship examination, the Ordinary Level examination, and Advanced Level examination and a review of the online teaching activities introduced by the private sector in response to the disruption of education. 4.2. National Prison Study In accordance with the power vested in the HRCSL to visit any place of detention to monitor the conditions of detention and make recommendations for the improvement of such conditions (Section 28(2) of the Act) the Commission commenced the first national study of prisons in Sri Lanka in 2018. The Study intended to evaluate the treatment and conditions of prisoners and make recommendations in order to promote compliance with international human rights standards, primarily the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules). The team of researchers visited 20 prisons in Sri Lanka to collect information and data for the report. The Study concentrated on the following key areas: treatment and conditions, rehabilitation process, special categories of prisoners, prison management, the criminal justice process, the continuum of violence, and alternatives to incarceration. The three main findings of the study are:   the prison system in Sri Lanka is overcrowded and under resourced; it emphasises the correctional/ punitive aspect over the preferred correctional/ rehabilitative model; 62