NCJ Number
112270
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 50 Issue: 4 Dated: (July 1988) Pages: 30,32,34
Date Published
1988
Length
3 pages
Annotation
In West Germany, special strategies have been devised to manage the security threat posed by incarcerated political terrorists.
Abstract
A planned dispersal policy ensures that no more than two terrorists are placed in any one maximum security facility. This prevents communications among terrorist inmates and any attempts at mass action and makes attacks from outside the facility more difficult. While initially terrorists are subject to high surveillance, once it is established that they pose no significant threat to institutional security, an attempt is made to integrate them with the general inmate population. This strategy attempts to minimize attitudes that terrorists are special political prisoners and to prevent allegations that terrorist inmates are segregated and physically or mentally abused. In addition to the initial tight security surrounding terrorist inmates, two other areas of prison operations are managed differently. Any contact terrorists might have with the outside world through mail or visitors is allowed, and a corrections and a police officer are present. All mail is first reviewed, and terrorists are allowed to receive no packages. Finally, there is a high degree of interagency and interjurisdictional cooperation and intelligence-sharing in the management of terrorist inmates. 1 photograph.