After an attempted escape of 4 prisoners .. Information about the “high security” prison Scorpion in Tora

After the martyrdom of two officers and a policeman while facing the attempted escape of 4 prisoners sentenced to death in the Tora prison area, Al-Masry Al-Youm monitors information about the Scorpion prison, which is one of the 7 jails within the Tora prison area.

The Scorpion prison is one of the harshest in Egypt, and was previously assigned to political prisoners, and Essam Derbala, head of the Islamic Group’s Shura Council, died earlier, in addition to Brotherhood leader Farid Ismail.

Scorpion Prison is one of the prisons in the Tora B area, and its real name is “high security”. It was established by the Arab Contractors Company, and it was called Operation No. 992, and it is called Scorpion because whoever enters cannot leave it. It is built in a secure way against escapes and attacks, which is the prison that was In it is located the military wing of the Islamic Group, expiation, migration and jihad.

The Scorpion Prison has a distinctive location, although it is located at the rear of the prisons, as it is surrounded by a 7 meter high wall and armored gates inside and out, and the officers’ offices are completely behind the barriers and iron bars. Extremist groups, as well as hardened criminals.

The idea of ​​a series of high-security prisons was suggested by a group of policemen, after their return from a training mission to the United States of America in 1991, and the former Minister of the Interior, Hassan Al-Alfi, and a A group of his assistants, including Major General Habib Al-Adly, who was the deputy minister of the state’s security sector, began.At that time, by preparing these American ideas and prioritizing them for immediate implementation, it took two years to its construction, to be completed on May 30, 1991.

The Scorpion Prison includes 323 cells divided into 4 horizontal pavilions that take the shape of the letter H, and the engineering drawing has allocated an area of ​​25 meters by 15 meters in the shape of the letter L for exercise purposes, and 20 cells They are used as disciplinary wards for any inmate who commits crimes in which he is prohibited from lighting and exchanging speeches, each ward. In high security, it is completely separated from the rest of the prison, once its armored outer door is closed, so that the detainees cannot even communicate through cells, as inmates do in regular jails, as a result of the huge amounts of reinforced concrete that prevent the arrival of sound.