http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/A-5-star-Saudi-jail-for-its-misled-sons/articleshow/51771741.cms
RIYADH: The "guests" are issued key cards for their rooms, receive three catered meals per day and sleep in suites outfitted with big-screen TVs, king-size beds and shiny wallpaper. They call it the "family house," and it feels like a boutique hotel, if one overlooks the lack of windows, the towering walls outside and the location — inside one of Saudi Arabia's high-security prisons for jihadis.
The house is designed to give jihadis who behave well a respite from inmate life and help them reconnect with their wives and children, and perhaps even conceive new ones.
That positive reinforcement is emblematic of the Saudi approach to its homegrown jihadis, which would not translate well to the West.
Those who have done their misdeeds abroad and have not participated in attacks at home are generally regarded as misled Saudi sons who need to have their thinking corrected so they can return to society as good, obedient subjects. That philosophy was clear during a recent tour of al-Ha'ir Prison south of Riyadh, one of Saudi Arabia's five facilities holding its more than 5,000 inmates charged with terrorismrelated offences.
"Here we have all the types of terrorism that you have in the kingdom," said a guide, a portly, mustachioed assistant transprison director who gave only a nickname, Abu Nawaf, for security reasons. "Prison is not just to punish a person and then let him out," he said. "That's a danger to him and to society. If he gets out and is good with himself, his family and society, that is better."
The effectiveness of that approach — which the Saudis argue is preferable to, say, sending inmates to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — is hotly debated and probably will be for some time, as independent assessments are rare.
Saudi officials say recidivism is low, but Abu Nawaf could provide no statistics. And the International Committee of the Red Cross has no presence in Saudi Arabia, so it cannot monitor prison conditions.
A 5-star Saudi jail for its ‘misled sons’
BEN HUBBARD | NYT News Service | Apr 11, 2016, 05.28 AM ISTRIYADH: The "guests" are issued key cards for their rooms, receive three catered meals per day and sleep in suites outfitted with big-screen TVs, king-size beds and shiny wallpaper. They call it the "family house," and it feels like a boutique hotel, if one overlooks the lack of windows, the towering walls outside and the location — inside one of Saudi Arabia's high-security prisons for jihadis.
The house is designed to give jihadis who behave well a respite from inmate life and help them reconnect with their wives and children, and perhaps even conceive new ones.
That positive reinforcement is emblematic of the Saudi approach to its homegrown jihadis, which would not translate well to the West.
Those who have done their misdeeds abroad and have not participated in attacks at home are generally regarded as misled Saudi sons who need to have their thinking corrected so they can return to society as good, obedient subjects. That philosophy was clear during a recent tour of al-Ha'ir Prison south of Riyadh, one of Saudi Arabia's five facilities holding its more than 5,000 inmates charged with terrorismrelated offences.
"Here we have all the types of terrorism that you have in the kingdom," said a guide, a portly, mustachioed assistant transprison director who gave only a nickname, Abu Nawaf, for security reasons. "Prison is not just to punish a person and then let him out," he said. "That's a danger to him and to society. If he gets out and is good with himself, his family and society, that is better."
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sharia law is not applied on ppl who are Muslims and killed non-Muslims. This shows how partial and steriotype our Muslim bothers. .The effectiveness of that approach — which the Saudis argue is preferable to, say, sending inmates to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — is hotly debated and probably will be for some time, as independent assessments are rare.
Saudi officials say recidivism is low, but Abu Nawaf could provide no statistics. And the International Committee of the Red Cross has no presence in Saudi Arabia, so it cannot monitor prison conditions.
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