{
  "id": 136866,
  "title": "House arrest as a remedy to the congestion in prisons",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/house-arrest-as-a-remedy-to-the-congestion-in-prisons",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-04T13:01:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/house-arrest-as-a-remedy-to-the-congestion-in-prisons/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Legal Draftsman has initiated the process of prepairing the draft bill to introduce the provisions for house arrest of suspects and offenders of appropriate cases subject to the policy approval of the Cabinet of Ministers given at that time as an alternative to remand imprisonment/imprisonment. Accordingly, approval of the Cabinet of Ministers was granted […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}