Korydallos Prison

A total of 20 prison inmates, including November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas, are to face charges of insurgence in connection with a protest in solidarity with a hunger-striking anarchist in February 2018, and could see their right to furlough or early release suspended under new legal provisions, Kathimerini understands.

A man who escaped from a police detention unit along with three others on Petrou Ralli Street last Monday was apprehended on Thursday in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni.

Two of the four Albanian fugitives were apprehended on the day of their escape.

According to police, the one who remains at large is the most dangerous of them all.

Four Albanian inmates escaped from a police detention unit on Petrou Ralli Street in the early hours of Monday morning with officers apprehending one of them a few hours later.

Police have launched a nationwide manhunt after two convicts described as being "particularly dangerous" escaped from Avlona Prison, north of the capital, on Monday night.

The incident took place at 9.40 p.m. on Monday night when the two convicts took advantage of an empty guard post outside the prison's kitchens to jump the fence and make their escape.

Leftist SYRIZA may have lost Sunday's elections in most parts of Greece, but it triumphed over conservative New Democracy at prison polling stations.

At the main wing of the capital's Korydallos Prison, SYRIZA garnered 79.7 percent of the general population's vote and support from 62.5 percent of its psychiatric wing, far more than ND's respective 5.6 percent and 12.5 percent.

An inmate in Athens' high security Korydallos prison was found dead by other detainees on Monday morning.

Police is investigating the cause of the 50-year-old man's death and examining whether his passing is due to drug use. 

The penal section of the Supreme Court on Thursday accepted an appeal filed by the court's top prosecutor Xeni Dimtiriou against the rejection of a prison leave for convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

An inmate at the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison reportedly hung himself in his cell on Friday while waiting to be transferred to a different facility.

The 61-year-old was being held temporarily at the prison's psychiatric wing as transfers between prisons have been suspended until after the European and local elections at the end of the month.

As a Greek judicial council on Friday turned down an appeal for a fresh furlough by convicted November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas, Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou said she would be reviewing the decision.

She also requested for Koufodinas' medical record and the report compiled by the social worker overseeing the jailed terrorist at the Volos prison in central Greece.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou has asked the authorities of the capital's high-security Korydallos Prison to hand over medical files and documents relating to two cancer patients who reportedly had their appeals for early release refused despite reports of their dramatically deteriorating health.