The year 2022 closed with 453 attacks on prison officials in centers dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, with a dozen serious cases and the remaining 97% of incidents classified as minor events or without injuries by Penitentiary Institutions.
The union 'Your Abandon Can Kill Me' has indicated that the data of the 453 attacks suffered in 2022 is worrying. "There are about a hundred more than the year that had the most attacks, 2016, with 359," said Manuel Galisteo, who questions the "poor management" in penitentiary matters.
According to official data from Penitentiary Institutions, in 2015 there were 341 attacks on officials, compared to 359 in 2016 and 305 in 2017. In 2018 - in the middle of the year the Government changed with the arrival of Sánchez - the incidents dropped to 223 cases, which It is the same figure that 2019 recorded.
The year 2020, marked by the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic that also affected the internal regulations of Spanish prisons, recorded 176 attacks on officials, although the statistic was even better in 2021, with 159 incidents, the lowest number since 2015.
'Your Abandonment Can Kill Me' criticizes the Specific Protocol for Action against Aggressions in Penitentiary Centers (Peafa) because, in its opinion, it leaves some attacks unaccounted for, which joins other burdens such as the non-approval of the figure of agent of authority.
In this context, this union has announced that it will hold a demonstration in Madrid on March 21, which will start next to the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street, to ask for "salary equalization and sectorization in Prisons."
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