@kithmie99: 📍 Bogambara Prison PART 01 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. The complex has gallows and was one of Sri Lanka's only two prisons where the death penalty was implemented. The gallows were shifted from Hangman's Hill to the prison in 1876. In all, 524 prisoners were executed at Bogambara. The convicted murderers W. A. Richard and T. M. Jayawardena were the last people hanged there on 21 and 22 November 1975, respectively.One of the most notorious criminals to be executed at the prison was D. J. Siripala (Maru Sira) who was executed on 7 August 1975. The prison was administered by the Department of Prisons. #bogambaraprison #bogambara #kandy #srilanka #Travel

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