CRP GRP HWC JRP KGRP KWC KRP MCP NMRP NRP PCP POPC WCP WWC psychological developmental issues. Inmates under the age of seventeen were kept in the C Ward. O Ward housed YOs. The eldest inmate was twenty and the youngest was sixteen years old. There was no YO Ward. However, two cells in A Ward had been allocated for YOs, and at the time of the visit both convicted inmates and remandees between the ages of seventeen to twenty were held there. B1 and B2 Wards housed inmates aged sixteen to twenty-two who had been sentenced under the Ordinance No. 28 of 1939. D1 (Right) B was the YO Ward. Convicted and remandee YOs were held together in the ward. The eldest inmate was nineteen and the youngest sixteen years old. YOs were kept in one side of the PH. The other side housed sick adult inmates and two party convicted inmates who were there to take care of the sick; there was no physical barrier between the two sections of the PH Ward. Amongst the YOs, there were two sixteen-year-old prisoners and one seventeen-year-old prisoner at the time of the visit. However, it was observed that there was a twenty-year-old in A1, two twenty-one-year old inmates in A2, one twenty-two-year-old in A3 and one twenty-one-yearold in D. No separate ward for young convicted prisoners was observed. YO Ward housed both convicted inmates remandees between sixteen to twenty-one years. Those who looked younger even though they were older than twenty-one were also kept there. The youngest inmate at the time of the visit eighteen years old. A Ward housed inmates under the age of twenty-two. K Ward housed inmates aged eighteen to twenty. The YO Ward housed both convicted inmates and remandees under the age of twenty-one. A2 Ward housed both convicted inmates and remandees under the age of twenty. The youngest inmate at the time of the visit was eighteen years old. Parakum Ward was said to be allocated for young convicted inmates, not necessarily those who are aged sixteen to twenty-two, but persons who are comparatively young – no data available on the age limit. YO (Upper Ward) housed YOs. Some YOs in the wards were in transit at Welikada before being transferred to the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre in Kandarkadu. Some young inmates in transit to Kandarkadu were found in a separate cell in I1 Ward, prior to registration, which usually houses new inmates overnight who have not yet been registered in the prison and assigned a ward No separate ward for young convicted inmates observed. 77