🔒 Bogambara Prison

Sri Lanka · Asia · 7.29°N, 80.64°E

Bogambara Prison was a maximum security prison and the second largest prison in the country after Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After operating for 138 years, the prison was closed on 1 January 2014, and the inmates were transferred to the new Dumbara prison complex in Pallekele. In 2019, the government declared the prison site would become a cultural tourism centre, the Bogambara Cultural Park.

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Country	Sri Lanka
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	7.29°N, 80.64°E · view on map

Bogambara Prison is located in Sri Lanka, in Asia.

More prisons in Sri Lanka

Mahara Prison · Welikada Prison.

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