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GILBOA PRISON, in northern Israel near the West Bank.

Sexual violence in Israeli jails: 38% of female guards assaulted by security prisoners

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Requesting Qurans, food at a "reasonable level," and 24-hour access to warm water.

Food, watches, and more: What Israel's prisoners demand for Ramadan

By SHLOMI HELLER

Prison worker Moishe Toito

Prison guard could face criminal charges for abuse accusation due to 'selective enforcement'

By YOAV ETIEL , ELI ASHKENAZI

Amos Lavi

Israel's criminals persist, even in war: Prison drama unfolds

By MAARIV

Security prisoners enjoy too many privileges - former Prison Service official

By Walla!

A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020.

Israeli prison guard was sexually assaulted by jailed terrorist, lawyer says

By MICHAEL STARR

View of the Gilboa Prison December 5, 2022.

Israeli prison guards had 'intimate relations' with jailed terrorist

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

L: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir. R: Likud leader, former-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir clash over Palestinians' conditions in Israeli prisons

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007.

Israeli prisons face overcrowding crisis as renovations frozen

By MICHAEL STARR

View of the Shita prison, located next to Gilboa,and intended for 800 primarily security convicts.

Prisons in crisis with overcrowding, abject conditions - public defender

By MICHAEL STARR

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony of new appointments and ranks of the Israeli Police, in Jerusalem, last week.

Ben-Gvir accuses Israeli prison commissioner of 'revenge'

By Walla!

Israeli inmates work at the Magen Nitzan Prison chocolate factory.

Prison, Employment services join forces to help ex-convicts stay out of prison

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Prison riot in Eshel Prison in Beersheba, June 9, 2023.

Inmates riot, clash with guards in Beersheba prison riot

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Gilboa Prison Investigation Committee.

Gilboa committee calls to fire commander in 2021 prison break report

By MICHAEL STARR

PALESTINIANS PROTEST outside the offices of the Red Cross in Hebron, last Thursday, following the death of hunger striker Khader Adnan

Khader Adnan's death in prison: A preventable crisis - opinion

By SHIMON GLICK

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan gestures as he speaks during a rally honoring him following his release, near the West Bank city of Jenin July 12, 2015.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader dies in Israeli custody after 86-day hunger strike

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Protestors shout slogans during a demonstration in support of Palestinian Khader Adnan, a senior member of Islamic Jihad who is jailed in Israel, on June 5, 2015

Islamic Jihad: Israel will pay 'heavy price' if senior official dies in prison

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Israeli inmates work at the Magen Nitzan Prison chocolate factory.

Israel Prison Service inaugurates inmate-run chocolate factory

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF