Logroño, (EFE) made a butrón to escape.
With a banner with the slogan “prisons without aggression”, the prison workers have supported the concentration called by the unions CCOO, CSIF, the Association of the Bodies of the Administration of Penitentiary Institutions (ACAIP-UGT) and the Professional Association of Prison Officials (APFP).
The ACAIP-UGT spokesman in La Rioja, Jorge Cabezas, told EFE that the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions and the Ministry of the Interior have to “take measures” to prevent further attacks on workers.
He added that, apart from the lack of personnel, they have denounced on other occasions the “structural deficiencies of the Logroño prison, which is an old center that is 38 years old.”
Cabezas has insisted that the prison in the La Rioja capital, which has category C, does not allow prisoners with the “characteristics” of the inmates who have recently arrived, who are “95 percent of those who create the incidents.” .
According to their data, they are prisoners who arrive “progressed from the first or second degree, but instead of referring them to a prison with special characteristics with proper isolation regimes, they are sent to Logroño, which should have low-profile inmates and short sentences.” .
Complaints for years
He stressed that prison officials have been alerting all competent administrations and institutions about this situation for two and a half years, from the Ministry of the Interior, the Government Delegation and the Ombudsman, but “nobody pays attention and the complaints They fall on deaf ears.”
According to the data provided by the Government Delegation in La Rioja, currently the inmate population of this prison is 287 inmates in the center and 65 outside -on probation or with telematic control-, for a total capacity of 500 inmates.
For the ACAIP-UGT spokesperson in La Rioja, the total capacity of 500 prisoners would only be met if all the cells were occupied by two prisoners, if the open section was fully covered, as was the infirmary, the isolation module and that of security forces, something that is “improbable”.
The official who was attacked by one of the three prisoners from the Logroño prison who made butrones in the bathroom of their cells to escape through the roof participated in the concentration, who underwent surgery this Thursday due to the possibility of losing mobility in the finger of one hand from these injuries.