Ombudsman says he’ll probe claims that female prison guards were ‘pimped’ to inmates

9 December 2021, 6:52 pm

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State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman photographed at the Calcalist conference in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman says his office will probe the claims that female prison guards at Gilboa Prison were “pimped” to Palestinian inmates.

“The soldiers’ descriptions of what happened at the prison should ring warning bells,” Englman tells students at Ariel University in the West Bank. “What happened there must be probed. It’s even more problematic if the harrassed guards were soldiers in their mandatory military service.”

Englman adds that he’ll examine the issue of having such soldiers serve in units outside the military, including “what are the tasks given to them and how protected they are.”