A internal from the Alicante Penitentiary Psychiatric Hospital attacked a worker with great aggression after suddenly throwing himself at him brandishing a knife. pen which he tried to stab him in the face and back.
Although he managed to escape thanks to his professionalism and experience, the officer was injured in the face and back, as confirmed by the prison staff union. Your abandonment can kill memajority in the prisons of Alicante. Immediately afterwards, colleagues came to his aid to control the situation.
The prison staff group is one of those that suffers the most from situations of this type. In fact, attacks have increased by 12% compared to the previous year, again according to official statistics. TAMPM calculates that Every 17 hours a Spanish prison employee is attackedfor which he denounces “the lack of means and training” at his disposal and “the ineffectiveness of a protocol” of the Penitentiary Institutions whose real objective is “to conceal the real number of attacks”.
At the Fontnivel psychiatric hospital, the situation is aggravated by the particular condition of the prisoners held there and, above all, by the shortage of professionals of Psychiatry that treats them. Currently, there are only two positions filled out of a total of five envisaged by the RPT, as they explain. “This leads people deprived of liberty to suffer more frequently from psychiatric epidemics, increasing their aggressiveness and conflicts, which the employees of the center must face,” they emphasize.
As the feast of La Merced, patron saint of the Penitentiary Institutions, approaches, the union once again criticizes the “abandonment suffered by the Ministry of the Interior“On March 18, workers from the three centers in the province cut off access to the prisons of Alicante, to protest the murder of a colleague in a prison in Catalonia, after having denounced for years that such events would eventually occur. “The security improvements demanded from commanders who prefer not to listen would lead to an improvement in the situation of people deprived of their liberty, which is typical of an advanced democratic state,” they warn.
Thus, the TAMPM reminds society that the basic prison officers, “despite the obstacles imposed by the heads of the Ministry of the Interior and Penitentiary Institutions”, ensure daily the accomplishment of the task entrusted to them by the Constitution of 1978: re-education and social education. reintegration.
