Ofer Prison

Ofer Prison , formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385 (מתקן כליאה 385‎), is an Israeli <a href="/facts/Incarceration_facility_(Israel)/8IkomcXU">incarceration facility</a> in the <a href="/facts/Israeli-occupied_territories/FxQkx2V8">Israeli-occupied</a> <a href="/facts/West_Bank/xzTTVNJl">West Bank</a>. It is one of three prison facilities along with <a href="/facts/Megiddo_Prison/Q6GGe1GC">Megiddo</a> and <a href="/facts/Ktzi%2527ot_Prison/SJ7GS3pD">Ktzi'ot</a>, the latter two located in Israel and not in the West Bank. Ofer Prison is run by the <a href="/facts/Israel_Prison_Service/GEVa0MFW">Israel Prison Service</a> and like the other two facilities, used to be operated by the <a href="/facts/Israel_Defense_Forces/9hPaqcAM">Israel Defense Forces</a>' <a href="/facts/Military_Police_Corps_(Israel)/rSDzyKMn">Military Police Corps</a>.
When under IDF control, it was capable of holding up to 800 prisoners, both tried and those under <a href="/facts/Administrative_detention/oogPPGAd">administrative detention</a>. 
NGOs have claimed that the imprisonment of children in Ofer Prison is one of the human rights abuses taking place at the prison.

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Ofer Prison