IPS mask failures that allowed the escape of six terrorists Gilboa Prison, requires examining how other countries approach the issue of keeping the prisons.
Throughout history, to make it harder for escapes, prisons were located in remote areas, like islands. Over time, geographical exclusion Has become a privilege of vast states, and even they do not rely only on distance deterrence.In fact, a combination of a rigid and uncompromising rule regime with technological means, has proven to be no less effective than a physical obstacle.
The Colorado State Prison houses the worst offenders: 22 percent of the inmates have been murdered in other prisons in the past, and 35 percent have tried to harm inmates or inmates. In addition, the organizers of the bombings in the Twin Towers in 1993, the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, the bombers and the al-Qaeda and Taliban senders.
The design of the place, based on the principle of separation, took into account the difficult nature of its occupants, as well as the fact that most of them have nothing to lose. The separation - between prisoner and prisoner, between cell and cell, and between wing to wing - takes from the prisoners all control over what happens. The windows of the cells were designed so that only the sky and the awning above the window could be seen through them, so that prisoners could not deduce from their sight their location in the compound. Much of the cell's equipment, including the bed, chair and table, is made of cast concrete, and the sink does not have a prominent faucet, so that prisoners will not find any objects that can be used for excavation, sabotage or assault.
Facial recognition mechanisms.
Indiana Federal Prison // Photo: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern Pneopticon
Despite all this, Florence is ready for any scenario. The prison complex is full of motion sensors and cameras, and is equipped with 1,400 steel doors with a remote locking mechanism (that is, about 3 doors per inmate!). Beyond the prison walls is a wire fence sash height 3.7 meters, the kind that stops infantry units. The space between the walls, the barbed wire is controlled by Weighing and foundations laser, and guarded by attack dogs.
Despite the importance of technologies, systems, security arrangements of Florence, known as Sometimes "Alcatraz in the mountains" is just another layer of many species. The main thing is to deprive the prisoners of control. - Not in the food they eat, not in their daily schedule and not in touch with the outside world. Guards on duty in the control room watch prisoners 24 hours a day.
The only thing inmates in Florence can influence is the severity of the incarceration regime: all prisoners are classified into one of six risk levels, and the better a prisoner behaves, the easier it is to benefit from benefits like hour-a-day exercise or mirror cell equipment (not glass, of course). When journalists were first allowed to visit Florence in 2007, they noted two things that stunned them - exemplary silence and a sense of security.
Americans are not the only ones who do not play with terrorists and murderers in a "convalescent home."
The Black Dolphin Prison in Russia boasts that in 200 years of operation no one has escaped from it.
From the beginning of the 2000s, the place is intended for prisoners who are sentenced to life imprisonment.
Each cell houses between two and four prisoners, and they are completely isolated from the occupants of the other cells.
Every prisoner found from the cell is accompanied by a guard and a dog.
When it is necessary to move a prisoner from one building to another, he is accompanied by several guards and his eyes are covered, so that he does not know how the compound is built and what the means of guarding it are.
And the icing on the cake: a prison guard scans every cell once every 15 minutes!
No escape was recorded.
Pocho Prison in Japan // Photo: AFP,
Biometric locks
In another Russian prison, with an equally poetic name, "white swan," prisoners are allowed to move outside the cell only when they are bent over, with their hands clasped behind their backs. They are under the constant surveillance of video cameras, and if one of them dares to approach the window an alarm sounds. Whenever a jailer peeks into the cell through the peephole in the door, prisoners are required to cling to the wall and raise their open palms to make sure they do not have a forbidden or dangerous object in their possession.
Even from the Pocho prison, the largest detention facility in Japan, no escape has yet been recorded. Unlike the Americans, who publicize the characteristics of Florence, the Japanese prefer to keep Pucco's exact security arrangements a secret. Some of them can still not be hidden, for example, the plastic panels that hide the cell windows from the outside, which are designed to prevent communication between the cells. Here, too, the main importance is for a strict procedure, which regulates every detail of the prisoner's life: how to walk, how to use the toilet, how to sit, how to place personal belongings in the cell, how to sleep (only on the back or side), how and when to talk and be silent and even where and when to look.
If the Japanese hear that a security prisoner in Israel dares to raise his voice to a prisoner, or to pour boiling water on him as has happened recently, they will surely think that this is an invention of a particularly wild imagination. Unlike terrorists in Israeli prisons who spend their time as they see fit, Pozzo residents, both criminal and security prisoners, are required to work.
Each year, a group of experts led by criminologist Marcello Abbey prepares for the Council of Europe a comparative report on the prison services of 47 European countries, which also includes a chapter on escapes. According to the report's findings, Spain excels in the lowest number of escapes. In addition to other means, in its most secure detention facilities, Herrera de la Mancha and Alicante II, where Basque terrorists are imprisoned, routinely transfer prisoners from cell to cell frequently. At the entrance to these prisons an electronic check is carried out, from which not even lawyers and clerics who come to visit the prisoners are exempt.
The latest technological innovations are already coming to the prisons.
The Pride of the Indiana Federal Detention Facility has the minimum number of wardens - cameras that cover every inch, facial recognition mechanisms, motion sensors and biometric locks do the job in their place.
The problem of inmates' illegal use of mobile phones, which continues to plague incarceration authorities around the world, can also be solved thanks to technology.
Capture of prisoners who fled Gilboa // Photo: Israel Police,
In 2017, more than 40,000 mobile devices were confiscated in French prisons.
Some will see in this huge number the ease of smuggling phones behind the walls, and some will notice the other side of the coin: thanks to frequent scans and technical means that monitor and locate mobile signals, the French manage to catch what is smuggled into prisons, mostly by corrupt staff.
The variety of tools developed for this purpose is large, and in places where they have been assimilated in the detention facilities - an uncontrolled communication problem no longer exists.
