Penitentiary Institutions has arranged new measures against Covid-19 in the Las Palmas II Penitentiary Center after detecting about thirty positive cases of coronavirus in the same module, all of them inmates who are asymptomatic.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, it was the positive result of a prisoner that led to the initiation of a study among her contacts in her module, finding the rest of the cases, while during the day this Monday the tests will be carried out on the rest of the residents of the center and workers.
With the new measures in force, all communications, ordinary and special, are suspended for three weeks; as well as all permit exits, scheduled and any other exit, except for reasons of force majeure, situation of need, for judicial or essential health reasons.
In addition, only civil servants and labor personnel, and extra-penitentiary personnel whose work is essential will be allowed access.
For its part, to alleviate this restriction on communications and permits for prisoners, the number of telephone calls that inmates are authorized to make will be increased, especially with their lawyers, and the use of video calls will be promoted.
"The objective of all these measures, which during the state of alarm ensured that not a single positive case was registered inside the penitentiary centers of the Canary Islands, is to protect the health of all penitentiary employees as well as that of the inmates, considered a vulnerable group", they point out from Penitentiary Institutions.