The prisoner had psychiatric problems and was arrested after trying to set fire to his own bed. It was the director of the prison himself to order to be kept without clothes and with an iron bed.
A prisoner from the prison of Angra do Heroism, on Terceira Island, Azores, has been hospitalized in serious condition since April 26, according to. It will have been left only with inside clothes in the cell for days. Now it has signs of hypothermia.
“What they did not do. It was punished, in a disciplinary cell, They took the mattress off, had to sleep on the ironswithout clothes. There was a guard that pity him and gave him a blanket. It is inhuman, ”says the president of the National Union of the Prison Guard (SNCGP), Frederico Morais.
The prisoner in question has psychiatric problemsand was arrested after setting fire to bed psychiatric institution in which it was hospitalized. On April 15, already arrest, will have returned to try to set fire to bed.
“He should not even be in prison. Only now, when he is discharged, does he go to the Psychiatry and Mental Health Clinic of the Santa Cruz do Bispo Prison in Porto. That decision should have been taken soon.”said the president of the union.
“What is in question is a crime that violates human rights, The United Nations Charter and the Constitution, ”he says.
Prison Director was the one who warned
The director of the prison, Armando Coutinho Pereirawill have given order for the prisoner to be maintained In an isolated cell, only in inside, two blankets and a metal bed.
When a nurse recommended that the prisoner be wrapped, It was the director of the prison himself to deny. “With sorry for him, the guards showed him, food and arranged a blanket against the director’s nomination.”explains Frederico Morais.
Will have been these guards who called the nurse to call INEM, at a time when “The prisoner was hardly breathing.”
The Portuguese Association for the Support for the Reclusso (APAR) has already filed a complaint in the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Minister of Justice.
“The prisoner was treated in a inhuman way, so much so that, despite having spent several days, he remains hospitalized, although at this time, is already stable“said the secretary general of APAR, Victor Ilharco, to. Note that this case “It’s extremely serious.”
