Penitentiary police officers from Craiova and Vaslui refuse to go to work on Tuesday, starting at 7:00 a.m. and block the activity of the penitentiaries for several hours.
According to the trade unionists, prison police officers are dissatisfied because “they are stolen, betrayed by politicians and forced to work in unhealthy working conditions, that they are understaffed and without safety equipment, a situation that endangers their health, bodily integrity , but also life”.
“Daily, prison officers are insulted, threatened by inmates, and monthly a prison officer is physically assaulted or literally beaten,” say the trade unionists.
The Federation of Trade Unions in the National Administration of Penitentiaries (FSANP) warns that, in the absence of firm and immediate measures, the situation will quickly escalate, endangering not only prison staff, but also society as a whole.
“We are not cannon fodder for the inmates”, claim the prison police officers, who complain about the lack of reaction of the Ministry of Justice and the National Administration of Penitentiaries in the face of this institutional crisis.
“Despite numerous calls for action and firmness, the response of the prison administration has remained at the level of ‘paper’ measures, which do not reduce the aggressiveness of prisoners and do not improve working conditions. Unions warn that penitentiaries, in their current form, are no longer rehabilitation centers, but real “crime schools”, where inmates become even more violent and ready to reoffend, endangering society,” say unionists.
According to the FSANP, while inmates enjoy privileges that are “unattainable for most ordinary citizens”, prison officers are constantly at risk, being scheduled in positions where they “are unable to meet their basic physiological needs”.
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“In the absence of a sufficient number of employees and the precariousness of adequate safety means, police officers are pushed to work in dangerous conditions, thus becoming safe victims of inmate aggression,” reports FSANP, which recalls the fact that this year an inmate cut off the nose of a police officer at the Bucharest Rahova Penitentiary.
“You send us to death every day, without caring about us and our families! How long will it be before a prisoner kills a policeman?”, the unions ask.
(source: AFP)
Source: jurnalul.ro
