[4] The idea of a series of high-security prisons was proposed by a group of officers upon their return from a training mission in the United States, and the Ministry of Interior considered it a creative and sufficient idea to fill what it considered a deficiency in its policy with armed groups in particular.
In 1991, former Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi and a group of his assistants-among them Major General Habib el-Adly, who was Assistant Minister for State Security Affairs at the time - began preparing these American ideas and placing them on the priority of immediate implementation.
In addition, 20 cells are used as disciplinary wards for political prisoners in which lighting and conversation are prohibited.
On June 26, 1993, Al-Adly attended as Assistant Minister, who made sure that the new prison was successful in terms of its ability to keep detainees and interrogate them in various ways.
As a result, inmates develop diseases due to the lack of vitamin D, whose scarcity leads to weakness in the mind and in the body.