The ACAIP-UGT prison union reported a serious mockery this Wednesday through its union division. An inmate attacked the Director of Services at the Zuera Prison Center. Zaragoza. The events took place in Module 10 and were conducted by a specially trained inmate. extensive history of events and various controversies at earlier stages.
Around 11.40 am on Wednesday, the inmate demanded the Service Chief, who went to the scene with other service personnel, to be present. Prisoner swayed a hidden sharp object and caused it by attacking the affected person various injuries to the nose and face. However, the quick response of the attacked worker and other officials present prevented more serious injuries. Another worker was injured.
The union division of the ACAIP-UGT requests immediate transfer of the objection. In addition, he wanted to highlight their exceptional professionalism in resolving the taunts that the workers were subjected to. moments of serious riskPersons requested to be recognized and commemorated by the General Secretariat of Penal Institutions.
On the other hand, the union once again warns of the serious problem implied by the structural shortage of medical personnel in Spanish prisons; this results in a lack of adequate and specific answers to the growing problem. Increase in psychiatric pathologies in prisons.
Health personnel shortage
Mental illness in prisons is a serious problem, and a shortage of doctors prevents problems with drugs from being detected and preventing outbreaks that lead to mockery problems and attacks on other inmates or staff. It should be noted that many of these inmates are in ordinary modules where there is a severe shortage of staff and their average age is high, which prevents them from providing adequate service.
At this point, the union underlines that 30 percent of the prison population reports that they are currently receiving psychiatric medication, and More than 20% have tried to take their own lives in some way. It should be noted that the suicide rate in prisons is 8 times higher than in the general population, and that most of these deaths are caused by mental illnesses.