An armed convicted person escaped from an open prison before using an improvised weapon to force a nurse to take him to a money machine, the Telegraph reports.
The criminal was planned to attend a working party in Standford Hill Open Prison, on the island of Sheppy in Kent, but did not show.
Instead, it is to understand that he went to a parking space near the Swaleside prison and a nurse stored with an alleged 'improvised weapon'.
The convicted person then ordered the caregiver to take him to the nearest village, reports the Telegraph.
He then demanded that the alleged victim took money from a money point before fled the scene.
The individual was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and theft, senior prison sources told the publication.
“This prisoner is back behind bars and the police are investigating,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) told the Telegraph.
“We take violence against our hard -working employees incredibly seriously and, if found guilty, he will be punished.”
An armed convicted person escaped from Standord Hill Open Prison (photo) before using an improvised weapon to force her to take him to a money machine
It is understanding that he went to a parking garage near Swaleside prison and revealed a nurse near an alleged 'improvised weapon' (file photo)
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Earlier this month it was announced rules for sending criminals to open prisons could be relaxed despite the fear that it would run the risk of worsening unrest.
Open prisons have lower security measures and prisoners leave the building during the day to attend work and education.
The government is looking forward to allowing prisoners to be kept in open circumstances for up to five years before their release instead of the current three, according to reports.
The individual step can also mean that official guidance would permanently change to be convicted of open prisons, even if they warn guards that they can flee.
The move was temporarily introduced under the last government in 2023 for the first time, but could become permanent, the observer reported.
Figures obtained by the newspaper showed that 143 criminals were substantiated from the lowest security prisons in England and Wales between January 2022 and March last year, and prison sources said more missing during the Christmas period.
According to the Telegraph, it is estimated that there are 60 incidents of the absence of open prisoners every year.
National chairman of the Prison Officers' Association Mark Fairhurst predicted that if the measures will continue 'the inevitable violence will rise, drug abuse will rise, the Abs fund will rise'.
He said: 'The open estate is supposed to be familiar conditions. People with another five years in that world will destabilize it even further.
It is all that the government looks at the allowance of prisoners to be held in open circumstances a maximum of five years before their release instead of the current three (shown: prisoners released from HMP Pentonville in London last September)
National Chairman of the Prison Officers' Association Mark Fairhurst predicted that the plan would see an increase in violence, drug abuse and fond
“The majority of people who now have access to the open estate would never have been transferred before, but they have relaxed the criteria to fill the space.”
He added at the time: 'We have people who refuse to work, people who have a lot of herbs, people who just walk away – we had Abs fund during Christmas.
“You can just walk away, but you can also walk back with a lot of drugs and alcohol on you because there are no searches.”
In December, David Lauke, who now leads the assessment of Labor in the condemnation of Labor, that the current overcrowding crisis in British prisons opened 'opportunity' for change.
He believed that thousands of convicts to low security open prisons should be sent in an attempt to reduce the recidivism and tackle the overcrowding problem of Great Britain.
He also said that Great -Britain follows Spain as an example, where a much larger part of the convicted criminals is free during the day to work and study outside the prison walls
Speaking with The Times, the former cabinet minister said that Great Britain does not use open prisons that much. '
This month he visited three prisons in Spain, where reforms have taken more use of open prisons, community sentences and house arrests.
David Lawke (photo), who now leads the assessment of Labor, has transferred the assessment of Labor, that thousands of convicts must be sent to low security open prisons in an attempt to reduce the recidivism and tackle the overcrowding of Great Britain
In an attempt to alleviate the overcrowding problem, the former government of Tory has facilitated the rules to allow category C prisoners in closed prisons to be moved to open facilities if they met criteria for violation and risk.
Now it is understood that ministers weigh whether they further expand and allow prisoners to be kept in open prisons for no less than five years before their punishment ends, instead of the current three -year period.
A MOJ spokesperson told the Telegraph at the time: 'Only less serious perpetrators who meet strict criteria are eligible for movements to open the circumstances.
'The prison service can exclude anyone who cannot be safely managed in a prison of category D.
“Those who go into hiding are confronted with serious consequences, which are returned to closed circumstances and serve an extra two years.”
