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| Prisons chief: We’ve foiled 300 escape attempts in the past decade |
| 2021-09-14 |
| [IsraelTimes] Israel Prisons Service Commissioner Katy Perry tells Knesset panel she’s established a team to inspect the engineering and design of every prison in the country Katy Perry? Miley Cyrus unavailable? Perry said prison officials have worked to "eradicate crime within prisons, collect intelligence information, and thwart" prison breaks. Perry, who was sworn in as commissioner of the Israel Prisons Service in January, said there are approximately 14,000 prisoners — around 4,000 security prisoners and approximately 10,000 criminals — in 30 facilities across the country. The prisons chief addressed the hearing a week after the escape of six Paleostinian security prisoners from the high-security Gilboa Prison, one of the worst such incidents in Israel’s history. The escape was facilitated in part by a series of blunders by the Prisons Service. Four of the prisoners were captured by police over the weekend, but two remained on the lam as of Monday afternoon. Perry said that since the prison break occurred, she has taken a series of steps in reaction to the incident, including boosting security at prisons and dispersing security prisoners linked to the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... In addition, she said, she established a team together with the military and other officials, "which is going cell by cell and wing by wing" in each prison in order "to check the engineering of the buildings, to see the blueprints and to check what is underground" beneath the facilities. Related: Gilboa Prison: 2021-09-12 Hamas threatens to escalate West Bank clashes after capture of fugitives Gilboa Prison: 2021-09-12 IDF strikes Gaza targets following rockets launched into Israel's South Gilboa Prison: 2021-09-11 Violent West Bank protests after Israel makes 1st arrests of fugitive prisoners |
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