On February 25, a prisoner of Moroccan nationality escaped from the Cuenca Penitentiary Center using a shelf as a staircase. As explained by prison institutions, the enclosure was under construction and there was furniture in the perimeter, which facilitated the leak. A few weeks before, a narco, sentenced to 20 years in prison, took advantage of the visits to escape from the Valladolid prison. And a month earlier, the story was repeated: a prisoner from the center of Mas d’enric de Tarragona took advantage of a scheduled exit to a therapeutic center to escape.
At this point, it should be noted that, according to data from the Ministry of Interior, Since 2020 the number of prison leaks have increased by 68.8 percent that have taken advantage of a penitentiary permit to not return to their internment centers. Between the year that the pandemic and 2024 began, The inmates who have escaped using this “modus operandi” amounts to 1990. And despite these data and the multiple complaints of the police who are in charge of their custodians and the civil guards responsible for the transfer of these prisoners, who have been asking for years asking for concrete measures and safer protocols … the ministry directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska argues that “These events are exceptional and there is no increase significant of its incidence, so They do not invite to adopt exceptional measures In this regard. “
Thus there is a parliamentary response of the Government to the PP, in which they were interested in knowing What measures do you plan to take the Executive before the increase in leaks in transfers or if you plan to provide more means to the agents of the Civil Guard who take care of those transfers or the police officers guarding prisoners in hospitals or judicial units. The head of Interior Pass from Puntillas on this subject, just as it is surrounding the question of whether you have thought Change protocols. In this sense, the ministry that directs Grande-Marlaska is limited to pointing out that, in regards to the civil guards, in 2023 a document called “specific security procedures in the prisoners and punishable conductions” was approved.
Aggressions to officials, leaks and lack of measures
It should be noted that this document is a mere “annex” to the operational intervention manual, which serves as a reference to the Benemérita agents. But there is even more, in that way of counting without saying anything, the Government tells that the General Directorate of the Civil Guard “studies and analyzes permanently the convenience of updating the police procedures related to the Driving and custody of detainees, prisoners and penalties“. About the application for more material meansit is limited to pointing out that the assignment of them “is part of the existing generic plans.” Not a single figure or concrete action plan.
The lack of responses has caused the Vox parliamentary group to remain in that line and take another step. Thus, in March he registered a battery of questions aimed at “clarifying” a little more the situation suffered by state security forces and bodies and bodies Prison officials, the great forgotten of Grande-Marlaska. “How many prison leaks have been registered in Spain since 2018 and What measures the Executive has adopted to prevent them? What investments has the government made since 2018 to improve security in prisons? How many security incidents or aggressions to officials Have they registered in Spanish prisons since 2018? “… Each and every one of them are still pending response by the government.