Talk:Israel Prison Service

Materials
Relevant sources for this article: —Ynhockey (Talk) 08:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4233051,00.html

Questions of importance

 * Hoe many prisoners does Israel have?
 * How many of these may be called 'political'?
 * Why is not Saharonim Penitentiary, Negev Desert, Ramat listed. Is it called something else? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.224.157 (talk) 16:17, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 86.14.251.87 (talk) 09:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't have statistics, but the IPS employs 7791 people. That could give some idea as to how many prisoners it has.
 * Depends on what you define as political, but it isn't likely that statistics about something like this exist. I am fairly sure anyhow that not that many prisoners were arrested merely for a political activity, and those are mostly extreme-right Jews from the settler movement. Others who might be called 'political prisoners' were arrested for violence, rioting, etc. and this includes many Arabs and left-wingers. Finally, I am not taking into account Palestinian prisoners because the laws that apply in their case are a bit different and since they're (usually) citizens of the PA, they don't count as political prisoners. I believe the total amount is up to 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in IPS prisons, not including detention centers. —Ynhockey (Talk) 16:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Other language sites
WhisperToMe (talk) 08:36, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Arabic: http://www.ips.gov.il/ShabasArab/Main/index.html - Doesn't exist yet
 * Russian: http://www.ips.gov.il/ShabasRuss/Main/index.html - Doesn't exist yet