Prisoners Who Escapeed From The Bengkulu Detention Center During Friday Prayers Arrested Around The Governor's Office House

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JAKARTA - Bengkulu City Class II B Karutan, Farizal Antony, confirmed that the S (19) detainee who escaped during Friday prayers was successfully recaptured by prison officials.

"At the time of working hard of the team, we managed to secure one assisted citizen S who had escaped from the Bengkulu Detention Center," said Farizal in Bengkulu City, Saturday, January 21, as reported by Antara. Detention Center S was arrested by officers at the Bengkulu Governor's official residence on Jalan Veteran, Teluk Segara District, Bengkulu City at around 00.30 WIB. When the detention center officers searched, the prisoner was hiding and taking advantage of the escape time by walking down the streets.

Based on the prisoner's confession, the reason he was desperate to escape was because he missed his family. It has been three months in the detention center, the detainee was never visited by his family. Previously, S, who is a recidivist related to the theft case and was detained in Bengkulu Children's Prison some time ago, escaped from the Bengkulu Detention Center when officers and other detainees were undergoing the Friday prayer or around 12.30 WIB. The chronology of the prisoner's escape when officers and other detainees were carrying out Friday prayers and then returned to the room on the second floor.

Then unexpectedly, the prisoner climbed the residential room and two barrier walls with a height of 10 meters.