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Police want special penitentiary for terror convicts
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Police officers escort terror convict Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to a case review at Cilacap District Court, Central Java, in February. (thejakartapost.com/Agus Maryono)
N
ational Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar wants to establish a special penitentiary for terror convicts to prevent the spread of radical teachings among inmates.
The current penitentiary system, which detains people convicted of various crimes, had provided sites for radicalization as radicals sought to spread their ideology to other criminals, Boy said.
"We want a special penitentiary to separate them as it's quite dangerous when [other inmates] are put together with terrorist convicts," Boy said on Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.
The special penitentiary would also optimize programs tailored to terror convicts, Boy said.
Such concerns have grown on the heels of the recent arrest of three suspected terrorists by the police’s Densus 88 antiterror unit in Surabaya, East Java. Two of the suspects were allegedly radicalized by terrorist inmates when they served time in prison, Boy said. (afr/dan)
