Prison workers union “Tu Abandono Me Puede Matar” benefited from the visit of the Secretary General of Penitentiary Institutions this Thursday. Angel Luis Ortiz, To remind Alicante Prison Psychiatric Hospital once again the shortcomings that both this center and the Integration Center have suffered. fontand improvements are demanding, especially an increase in staff.
Ortiz was at Fontcalent Psychiatry closing a mental health course and TAMPM is the Home Office’s “routinely firefighting and self defense training They feel that this training is necessary because inmates “show a more precarious profile” and a shortage of medical personnel “is causing epidemics in these patients who are aggressive towards staff or burn their cells”. reminds you of it.
The union also approves the average age of the workforce is high and is experiencing a “severe shortage of cleaning staff”. TAMPM sent a letter on this matter requesting more staff and improvements in the hygiene of the departments, and they repeated this on the occasion of Ortiz’s visit.
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Psychiatrists are also worried about an “uncertain future”, and TAMPM demands that Ortiz take the pulse of hospital staff and “directly disclose plans for the centre, without them having to find out in the press.” According to the union, Ortiz assured during his visit that the Siete Aguas headquarters was still in progress.
The union said in a statement that Ángel Luis Ortiz is expected to benefit from the visit. fired general manager José Demetrio MonterdeAnnouncing his impending retirement and holding this position since 2010, TAMPM appreciates the professionalism Monterde has shown throughout all his years of service.
In addition to the shortcomings in psychiatry, the neighboring Harmony prison is not far behind TAMPM. Lack of staff to deal with new services Such as the Management of Alternative Punishments and Measures or the Mothers Unit. “Added to this is an outdated architectural deployment that causes security problems,” the union organization said, which recently requested a visit from the Ombudsman to make the necessary reforms to separate the two settlements.
The union confirmed that Fontcalent prison supports a heavy workload and is “one of the prisons in Spain that manages the highest number of prisoner and family visitation admissions” to which, according to something reported by TAMPM, “excessively bureaucratic duties in custody” are added. to the administration. “The health of workers should be one of the main concerns of Penitentiary Institutions that have received complaints this week. poor condition of dressing rooms and dining room” According to TAMPM
TAMPM accuses the Secretary General of failing to fulfill his promise to renew the institution after serving five years, and demands that he make a public statement on what happened in prison in 2014. villena In 2021, with false accusations against staff about a dismissed manager and an assistant manager,” the statement was completed.