The association of prison workers "Tu Abandono Me Puede Matar" (Your Abandonment Can Kill Me) has requested the resignation of the deputy director of the CIS Ángel Guerra of the Tahíche Penitentiary Center, after an inmate threatened to kill and attempted to assault an official. The group accuses him of not preserving the physical and psychological health of the worker after the events, causing her to suffer "an acute anxiety attack."
According to this association, the same prisoner "has been staging outbursts habitually" and "has turned verbal and psychological violence towards the staff of this institution almost into a lifestyle." "Even more so since the prison population of this country has become perfectly aware that, since the latest Service instructions issued by our General Secretary criminalizing the staff in their relations with those deprived of liberty, almost anything they do or say to us is practically free," he adds.
In this regard, he states that the man "usually shows problems accepting any indications made by female personnel" and recounts in detail what happened on May 5, noting that everything happened after a colleague gave the inmate "appropriate indications" "for an attitude that was at least correctable." "It is after the closing of cells, after lunch, and after 3:30 p.m., when the alarms sound," says the group, which states that the prisoner had "self-harmed with some blades," so it was necessary to "locate the doctor on duty and transfer him to the infirmary."
In that transfer, he states that the inmate separated from the group "with great excitement," addressing the official "with excessive violence," whom he "threatens." "I'm going to kill you, your husband, your children, I'm going to cut you, I'm going to cut your throat, I'm going to have a bomb put on you, I'm going to kill you all," he says he said.
According to "Tu Abandono Me Puede Matar" (Your Abandonment Can Kill Me), the situation "did not escalate further given that it was necessary to reduce the individual in that precise spiral of violence that he was beginning to star in, making it necessary to isolate both the subject and the official, a mother, who was beginning to have a nervous breakdown."
"Free from ties and without moral reprobation"
However, the association states that "it didn't end there" and that "in less than two hours," the accidental head of the center, the deputy director, considered that the situation was not so serious nor that the worker's "broken psychological health" was "worthy of greater attention." Thus, he assures that he did not hesitate "to return" the prisoner, "free from ties and any moral reprobation," to the same place where she was, "lorded over, with the greatest freedom to be able to, at that moment, if he pleases, fulfill his threats against her."
After that, he points out that the official's nervous breakdown led to "an acute anxiety attack, which had to be treated in a medical center, after being forced to leave her job."
"It is of special relevance the fact that this individual, in his calculating anxiety to be able to access her, does not hesitate for a second to practice the physical violence that is necessary on himself, if with it he guarantees a possibility of being close and fulfilling his threats against this woman, a public servant, so it does not escape any good father of a family that this person, first, treasures a deep evil, and second, given his social trajectory, as a convicted criminal and not as a Sister of Charity, it is more than reasonable that he fulfills his threats, even more so when we ignore if this individual has been radicalized in prison, a breeding ground for Islamic terrorism in Spain, and the contacts he may have abroad to be able to fulfill them," they add from "Tu Abandono Me Puede Matar" (Your Abandonment Can Kill Me).
Thus, the association demands the dismissal of the deputy director, head of the CIS Ángel Guerra, given that the Law on Prevention of Occupational Risks "obliges him to preserve not only the physical health of this worker, but also the psychological one" and considers that "nothing has been further from this legal inoperability" than his action.
