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Sri Lanka: Army deploys to quell new prison riot as facility holds inmates at 4x capacity
On August 2, 2026, the Sri Lankan military was deployed to control a new prison riot at a facility housing 4,100 inmates—four times its intended capacity, according to Le Monde. This is the second major crisis in less than a month: in early July 2026, a previous uprising had killed 31 people across Sri Lankan prisons. Severe prison overcrowding remains a structural problem throughout the country's penitentiary system.