Escapees captured

Escapees captured

BANDAR LAMPUNG, Lampung: Three of the eight prisoners who
escaped from the Kota Agung prison last week have been captured.

Chief of the Bandar Lampung police precinct, Col. Didi
Kusumayadi, said yesterday the three had been returned to the
prison and were being kept under close surveillance.

"We are determined to recapture all the escapees soon because
otherwise they will cause unrest," he said. He identified those
still at large as Bambang Supriyanto, Supri, Ibrahim, Sudirosi
and Irfan.

Chief of the provincial office of the justice ministry,
Soejagoes, said it is difficult to guard prisoners because, he
added, it is the nature of convicts to try to escape.

Eddy Rifai, a criminologist at Lampung University, speculated
that the prisoners had broken out because they had not been given
the opportunity to satisfy their sexual needs. He proposed that
convicts be allowed to receive visits from their wives.

Sociologist Soleman Biasane Taneko of the same university said
that prisoners should be made work in order that they be kept
busy. This, in turn, would help them avoid stress, he said. (rms)