Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) has reported this Saturday a new attack by an inmate against an official at the Ponent penitentiary center. According to union sources, the events occurred today during the transfer of an inmate to the special department for having attacked and grabbed another prisoner by the neck. The affected official was taken to the mutual insurance company to be treated for his injuries.
This is the second incident at the Ponent prison in less than a week, after a confrontation between prisoners on Tuesday left four officials injured, two of whom are currently on leave. From the union they regret that officials continue “without having options for the people who do not let us work.”
The two incidents at the Ponent center fuel a discontent that prison workers have been expressing for days and which have manifested in the form of protests and blockades in many Catalan prisons after the murder of Mas Enric’s cook, Núria López, on March 13.
“The situation is unsustainable. This is proof that Nuria’s murder at the hands of an inmate is not an isolated case. We suffer daily attacks. We are a group forgotten by the administration,” said the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants Central (CSIF) on Wednesday, referring to the cook murdered in El Catllar, in Tarragona.
The president of the union in Lleida, Modesto Berciano, then insisted that more personnel and more resources are needed and that officials be considered agents of authority “to be able to guarantee coexistence in prisons since the principle of authority has been lost.” “.
