Data are presented in table format with no accompanying narrative descriptions. Most data offered span the years 1997 through 2005. Ten sections offer information about prisoners in Sri Lanka: (1) prison institutions in the country; (2) departmental staff; (3) unconvicted prisoners; (4) convicted prisoners; (5) direct admissions to the Training School for Youthful Offenders; (6) death sentences; (7) prisoners released on work release scheme, license scheme, and home leave scheme; (8) the value of industrial and agricultural output; (9) general information; and (10) drug offenders. Following general descriptions of the prison institutions in Sri Lanka, statistical information is offered on admissions of unconvicted and convicted prisoners by institutions, by age, by literacy, by face, by religion, and by marital status. Daily average admissions are presented along with information on annual average admissions and average length of time spent in custody. Direct admissions are presented in a similar fashion for juveniles admitted to the Training School for Youthful Offenders. Direct admissions of prisoners sentenced to death is offered by sex, race, religion, marital status, literacy, districts, residence, previous punishments, previous convictions, income, personal habits, and occupation. General information presented in the report includes data about escaped prisoners; recaptured and at-large prisoners; imprisonment for default of payment of fines; population of convicted prisoners by literacy and sex; number of prisoners treated in prisons and civil hospitals; number of deaths and the death rate; the average cost per prisoner; and the average cost of food per prisoner. A chronology, excerpted from the “History of Prisons in Sri Lanka,” offers a brief explanation of the history of Sri Lankan corrections. Figures, tables