The ACAIP union has once again reported "serious altercations" in the Tahíche prison, which have resulted in an officer injured with injuries and contusions and an inmate in isolation. The group once again denounces the lack of resources in the penitentiary center.
According to the union, the events took place in module 4 at around 12:15 p.m. this Wednesday, June 3. "An inmate threatened and insulted the on-duty officer because he wanted the prison doctor to see him immediately," they say. Acaip explains that due to "the aggressiveness shown by the inmate, they tried to calm him down, but he began to kick and punch, both the service worker in the module and the rest who were there."
As a result of these events, the officer was "hit" and had to be treated for injuries and contusions in one hand, first in the Center's infirmary and later in a hospital center.
"Once again, as has been denounced on different occasions by this union section, violent acts are once again taking place, carried out by especially conflictive inmates, who have been transferred from other islands to this prison and for which it is not designed architecturally, humanly, or materially," they denounce. "In this case, it is an inmate with serious psychiatric problems, who has been held in the first degree, the most severe that is applied in prisons until 2018," they add from Acaip.
Finally, the Association of Bodies of the Penitentiary Institutions Administration states that "all this added to the current circumstances; on the one hand, the exceptionality that derives from the application of the state of alarm within prisons and, on the other, the already denounced lack of resources that penitentiary workers face every day and specifically in this prison, cause confrontations both between the prison population and towards officials to be constant."
