The association of prison workers, Your Abandonment Can Kill Me (TAMPM) denounces a new incident in the Tahíche prison. An inmate started a fire in the cell after burning her clothes.
According to the group, it was during the distribution of breakfast when she began to shout and threaten the rest of the prison population, so "when she did not desist from her attitude" she was isolated by order of the Head of Services in an authorized area, which prison professionals call "American", "with the intention of calming her down".
"It is inside there where the inmate in question begins to take off her clothes and makes the decision to set fire to the clothes, causing in a few minutes a large cloud of smoke that sets off the fire alarm, forcing colleagues to equip themselves with the extinguishing equipment to appease the fire and reduce the inmate to get her out of there," added TAMPM.
She is later transferred to the infirmary "due to the impossibility of reasoning with her and due to the risk of her inflicting severe damage on herself or third parties." After the evaluation of the center's doctor and the center's commanders, they decide to remove the restraint and return the inmate to the women's module.
From the association they "thank once again the professionalism that the prison officials who are in this center have demonstrated again and denounce the conditions in which we have been carrying out our work, which is considered essential by our Minister Fernando GrandeMarlaska, but after years of mobilizations nothing has been done to remedy it."
Finally, they remember that prison professionals are still not Authority within Penitentiary Centers, which causes daily aggressions in all Spanish Prisons, they suffer a staff deficit of more than 3,400 positions out of a staff of 23,000 officials, causing a large workload and in many cases having to deal with a single official with 120 inmates; they do not receive continuous training on situations such as those described above, but rather annual courses of two days duration for twenty officials; and without forgetting the comparative grievance with our Catalan counterparts who earn an average of 600 euros more even though in our case we have to deal with the worst criminals (Terrorism, National Court, Armed Gang...)
