A prison officer in Tahíche was injured this Thursday "for safeguarding the life of an inmate," according to the union section of the Association of Bodies of the Penitentiary Institutions Administration (ACAIP).
In a statement, it states that the events took place at around 4:30 p.m. in the isolation module of the penitentiary center, when an inmate touched the intercom telling the officials that he had "a spike (manufactured cutting instrument)" and that he was going to "cut his neck."
According to ACAIP, the officials appeared and reduced the inmate "to safeguard his physical integrity, one of them hitting his hand against the iron bed frame during the reduction." As a result, it indicates that said official had to be treated in the center's infirmary and that, later, after the x-rays that were performed on him in the Hospital's Emergency service, he was diagnosed with having fractured two bones in his hand.
