Gemma Ubasart

The protest in Catalan prisons reveals the Government’s inability to stop the crisis | News from Catalonia

The protests by Catalan prison officials following the murder of a cook at the hands of a prisoner last Wednesday have confirmed the inability of the acting Government of Pere Aragonès to stop the open crisis in the prisons. Since Friday, intermittently, workers’ blockades have forced prisoners to be locked in their cells, suspended trials, … Read more

Prison officials challenge the Catalan Government after the murder of a worker | News from Catalonia

Prison officials are carrying out an unprecedented mobilization in Catalonia in the face of an unprecedented event: the murder, at the hands of a prisoner, of Nuria López, cook at the Mas d’Enric prison (Tarragona). “We are all Nuria,” repeat the workers, who have been warning for months about an increase in attacks and insecurity … Read more