An extensive inquiry into the physical conditions inside prisons located within pre-1967 Israel was published in Ha'aretz in 1978 by Israeli journalist, Yair Kutler. It is the detention center that terrifies all who pass through its gates. The reception awaiting those remanded there until trial is frightening. Cells are extremely cold and damp. The shabby, torn and filthy mattresses are crowded.
Most detainees have nowhere to lie but the floor.
The overwhelming stench of human excretion, sweat and filth never fades from the locked and bolted cells. In 'D' wing there are three rooms into which twelve, eighteen and twenty detainees are crammed. Ramle is one of the harshest prisons in Israel. It is a former British police station that was once used as a stable for horses. It is overcrowded and stinking, packed with seven hundred inmates.