A prisoner of the PI in Vught tried to escape from the prison’s Penitentiary Psychiatric Center (PPC) in January. This is evident from an overview of the Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI). Employees discovered the prisoner in time and then took the detainee to an isolation cell.
The DJI publishes a list every month with things that have happened in the various prisons throughout the country. The detainee in Vught is said to have tried to escape from the PCC on January 17. A DJI spokesperson said that the detainee was soon found within the prison’s fencing.
“There was never any danger to staff, other prisoners or to society. After a short time, the detainee was found within the secure fencing of the prison walls and subsequently transferred to an isolation cell,” the statement said.
The DJI indicates that it will not respond to questions about the escape attempt. “The applicable procedures have been followed and have worked adequately in this case. As usual, the incident is being evaluated internally.”
Wrong more often
It is not the first time that things have gone wrong at the Vught PI. Last December, three employees at the PCC were taken hostage by Corné H. He stayed in Vught, because he had also taken employees of a café in Ede hostage a year earlier.
Two weeks later, on December 19, a patient in the same department started a fire in his cell and in the same month a prison employee was injured in a stabbing incident. Things were also bad in the prison in July when a prisoner climbed onto the roof.
Who stays in the Penitentiary Psychiatric Center?
The PCC is the psychiatric department of the prison in Vught. Detainees who need extra care because they suffer from psychological problems reside there.
What is there on the PI site in Vught?
The PI in Vught consists of a prison and a detention center. There is also the EBI and the prison for Management Problem Detainees (BPG), a Terrorist Unit, two penitentiary psychiatric centers and an institution for systematic offenders (ISD).
Want to know more about the EBI in Vught? You can see it in this episode of Crime Explained:
