DG, prisons Santosh Upadhyay BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha prisons directorate has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for jails to effectively handle emergencies like jailbreaks and escape of prisoners from judicial custody. A special joint drive would be launched by the police and prisons staff to recapture the escapees. The guidelines have been framed in the wake of the escape of two under-trial prisoners (UTPs) from a sub-jail at R.Udayagiri in Gajapati district earlier this month. While one of the UTPs was recaptured, the other one is still on the run. A warder of the sub-jail was suspended for dereliction of duty. Besides, jail authorities had lodged a police complaint against the warder for allegedly helping the two UTPs escape from the jail. Notably, Maoists had attacked R.Udayagiri sub-jail in March 2006 and freed 42 inmates, including some Maoists.