The Tahíche prison registered this Sunday, April 10, "serious altercations" that have resulted in an officer injured with injuries and the transfer of an inmate to the isolation department. This has been reported by the Association of Bodies of the Penitentiary Institutions Administration (ACAIP) that once again denounces "an acute lack of personnel and the "lack of resources".
According to the union, the events took place at around 12:15 p.m. in module five, when an inmate, who is serving a sanction of deprivation of walks in his cell, warned that "he had self-harmed, cutting himself in the arm." "He was immediately transferred to the nursing department where up to 20 stitches have been applied," says ACAIP.
Once back in his module, and "due to the aggressiveness shown by the inmate, with continuous death threats to prison workers, he is transferred to the isolation department, where he kicks the head of services twice, hitting him in the chest".
From ACAIP, they denounce again that "violent acts are again taking place, carried out by especially conflictive inmates, who have been transferred from other islands, in this case from the Las Palmas II prison, to this prison and for which it is not designed either architecturally, humanly, or materially". The union recalls that this is an inmate who has already "carried out different violent acts" in this prison and who has been held in the first degree, the most severe that is applied in prisons.
Finally, ACAIP states that "all of this adds to the exceptional movement of personnel at a national level, which translates into an acute lack of personnel, which leads to the suspension of vacations for prison workers and, on the other hand, the already denounced lack of resources that prison workers face every day, cause confrontations both between the prison population and towards officials to be constant".
