A massive pitched battle between inmates of the Lleida prison ended this Tuesday with eight inmates isolated and four officials had to be transferred to the mutual insurance company to be treated by medical services for various injuries caused by the beatings of the prisoners.
The confrontation began in the morning, when the prisoners were coming down from their cells and the officials had to intervene to separate them and isolate three of them. In the afternoon, in the same module, they clashed again with the result of four injured officials and five more isolated inmates, according to the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants Central (CSIF has reported that
“The situation is unsustainable. This is proof that Nuria's murder at the hands of an inmate is not an isolated case. We suffer daily attacks. “We are a group forgotten by the administration,” says the union, referring to the cook murdered in Mas d’Enric prison, in El Catllar, in Tarragona.
The president of the union in Lleida, Modesto Berciano, insists that more personnel and more resources are needed and that officials are considered agents of authority “to be able to guarantee coexistence in prisons since the principle of authority has been lost.
The union also asks that both early retirement and second activity be regulated for its group” and emphasizes that the Center Penitenciari de Ponent is one of the most complicated centers to work in Catalonia because they refer many troublesome inmates there.
On Tuesday, the mayor of Lleida, Fèlix Larrosa, the deputy mayor for security, Cristina Morón and the deputy in Parliament, Judith Alcalà, the representatives of the five union sections constituted in the Ponent Penitentiary Center, Alejandro Gutiérrez de UGT, Jordi Uceda from CCOO, Modesto Berciano from CSIF, Jordi Albendea from Intersindical, and Maria Isabel Ollé from the CATAC union to analyze the situation that is currently being experienced in the penitentiary centers of Catalonia, including Lleida.
“All this that is happening strengthens my belief in the need to remove the Ponent Penitentiary Center from the city and make it a 21st century prison,” said the mayor, who months ago already proposed the transfer to the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès. .
According to the representatives of the unions of the 5,000 officials who work in the penitentiaries of Catalonia, 35% are from Lleida.
