Overview

• Two inmates serving short sentences for minor property offenses fled JVA Ulm’s open-regime unit on June 6 by climbing through a window and across workshop roofs.
• They descended a drainpipe and escaped toward Friedrichsau, exploiting minimal supervision and unbarred windows in the open-regime facility.
• One of the pair was recaptured on June 7 in Alb-Donau-Kreis and has been transferred into closed custody.
• The second inmate remains at large as authorities continue the search under the assessment that he poses little danger to the public.
• Jennifer Rietschler and justice ministry officials have launched a joint review of security measures to shore up gaps in the open prison regime.