The Barcelona jail of Brians 2 It does not have locked up only prisoners on the night of this Tuesday. Catalan prison officials, all of them union representatives of that group, They have stayed inside that prison as a form of protest for what they consider lack of response from the Department of Justice of the Generalitat to their claims for the treatment of the attacks suffered by these intramural public workers.
Representatives of all the centrals -ACAIP, CCOO, UGT, Intersindical CSC, CSIF, Marea Blava and CATAC- participate in the confinement without ending their mobilization. The confinement is a continuation of a concentration that this morning brought together a large group of officials outside the doors of Brians who complained about what they describe as “increased attacks” in Catalonia.
“In recent weeks – they have recalled in a statement – an official has had to undergo an aesthetic operation after being attacked by a prisoner and another has been wounded with broken two vertebrae”.
numbers on the rise
The unions of prison workers in Catalonia ask for that the Generalitat take each attack to court to an official – in the conviction that successive sentences cost the prisoners increased sentences that could be a deterrent to their violent behavior – and to set up or build a special prison in which to detain those prisoners who, classified in the first degree – the least evolved of life in prison, generally the most violent – do not adapt to the regime of life in ordinary compliance centers. This type of prisoner is the protagonist of a significant percentage of the attacks.
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In 2022, according to data collected by Marea Blava, they took place in the nnine prisons administered by the Generalitat, and among the 7,713 inmates that housea total of 1,231 violent incidents, between serious and minor attacks and attempted attacks on prison professionals. That number skyrockets compared to the 749 cases in 2021 and the 487 that the same source counted in 2020.
The situation is described as “unsustainable” by the prisoners, who also demand an increase in the staff of the Catalan prison system by 600 troops to be able to attend to this and other problems of its operation.