3.2. Remand prisons There are nineteen remand prisons in Sri Lanka.10 The remand prisons detain unconvicted prisoners while there are convicted prisoners also housed in these prisons to perform functions, such as clerical work in office branches, maintenance and the preparation of food. 3.3. Work camps There are nine work camps11 which are prisons without a perimeter wall, that detain short term convicted prisoners under minimum security conditions. Convicted prisoners serving short term sentences or the last few years of a long sentence are sent to work camps. Inmates at these camps are involved in work such as agriculture, manufacturing of cement blocks or bricks, carpentry, bakery etc. 3.4. Open prison camps There are two open prison camps12 in Sri Lanka which exclusively detain convicted prisoners serving short sentences or the last few years of a long sentence. These prisons do not have a perimeter wall and the inmates are detained under minimum security conditions. 3.5. Lock ups There are twenty-three lock ups13 within the purview of the DOP. These are detention centres located near the Courts and temporarily detain prisoners with pending cases to be produced before the Court, as well as prisoners to be transferred to a prison following the court hearing. Lock ups were not included in the sample of institutions for this study as they are temporary institutions and do not have a significant role to play in the criminal justice and incarceration process beyond operating as transit points. 3.6. Youth Training Schools A training school, or, as it was formerly known, a borstal, functions as a correctional institution for young male offenders between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two, where they are made to undergo educational and vocational training in an attempt to rehabilitate them. 10 Remand prisons - Colombo, Tangalle, Jaffna, Anuradhapura, Batticaloa, Badulla, Galle, Matara, Negombo, New Magazine, Kegalle, Trincomalee. Kalutara, Kuruwita, Boossa, Monaragala, Polonnaruwa, Wariyapola, Vavuniya 11 Work camps- Wataraka, Meetirigala, Hangilipola, Weerawila, Pitabeddara, Kuruwita, Wariyapola, Kandewatta, Thunkama, Ambepussa 12 Open prison camps- Pallekele OPC, Anuradhapura OPC 13 Lock Ups- Ampara, Avissawella, Balangoda, Balapitiya, Elpitiya, Chilaw, Puttalam, Embilipitiya, Gampaha, Gampola, Hambanthota. Kalmunai, Kilinochchi, Kuliyapitiya, Kurunegala, Maho, Mannar, Matale, Mullaitivu, Hatton, Nuawara Eliya, Pandura, Point Pedro 30