Prison Establishment of Alcoentre
The two prisoners who evaded this Monday from the prison of Alcoentre, in the municipality of Azambuja (district of Lisbon), were captured at 6:40 am, about 12 hours after the escape, near Espinheira, in Alcoentre.
Two prisoners fled this Monday of the Prison of Alcoentre.
Hélder Malheiro and Augusto Dinis37 and 44, they used a rope to overtake the prison wall.
The two men escaped after dinner, on an escape that was carefully planned… but that only lasted 12 hours.
The fugitives were captured this Tuesday, at 6:40 amabout 12 hours after the escape, near Spinein alcoentre.
In a statement, the Lisbon Territorial Command of GNR, a police force that captured, indicated that the detention of the evaded by the military of the Aveiras Territorial Post, took place at 6:40 am, near the town of Espinheira, Alcoentre, after being received a Complaint at 03h00.
The two prisoners are convicted of crimes of drug trafficking and theft, with penalties of five years and eight months and four years and nine months.
“The detainees were serving a prison sentence in the prison establishment, and thus being captured about 12 hours after its escape,” describes GNR.
This police force adds that “from the knowledge of the suspect’s escape, the Guarda Police device has developed a set of discreet steps, collecting and changing information and using various surveillance mechanisms.”
The escape happened in an area of jail where incidents had already occurred. Since Sunday and this Monday, in this area, the Watchtower was inoperative.
Write that the prisoners will have climbing or wall and used a sheet rope.
According to the morning, they were at service 15 guards instead of the usual 30.
“Irresponsibility of governments”
Speaking to SIC Notícias, Frederico Moraisleader of the National Union of the Prison Guard, classified this case as One more serious failure in the Safety System of Portuguese Prisons.
The president of the Union Association of Heads of the Prison Guard (ASCCGP), Hermínio Barradashe warned Lusa that the “chaos” installed in Portuguese prisons for overcrowding, lack of resources and built obsolete will provide new reclusions of prisoners.
Speaking to the agency Lusa minutes before it is known that the two prisoners who evaded on Monday from the prison of Alcoentre were captured, Hermínio Barradas considered that “It is an irresponsibility of governments to have let the prison system arrive at this point”.
“Phenomena will continue to occur by virtue of this resource descendant spiral. It is authentic chaos. It is irresponsible for governments to have failed to reach the prison system to this point. And now they go after the damage and can’t because human mass doesn’t come to this profession. [As causas estão em] Three axes: the obsolete built, overcrowding and the lack of resources, ”said the president of ASCCGP.
Watchtower was inoperative
For ASCCGP President, “Failures are systemic” and what is concerned is “a number of holistic factors that cause and further enhance these phenomena.”
“Watchtower were not activated because it is not effective and this tendency cannot be contradicted [da profissão] by INATRATIVITY OF THE PROFESSION“, These.
Hermínio Barradas also pointed out that “there is a terrible obsession with this direction general in the realization of steps”, justifying that it “has been being very pressured by the judiciary to do the service.”
“The hour, se The staff no longer reaches the internal tasksbeing sending the few resources that exist outside, inside then it is even smaller. It is an inevitability, Any misfortune will happen If there is no political will, the regime pact we have already talked about for a year to move the chains seriously. It seriously moves the laws, the structure, the organic, ”he concluded.
