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The Alagoas Secretariat for Resocialization and Social Inclusion (Seris) announced today the preventive removal, for 60 days, of seven criminal police officers who were on duty at the Cyridião Durval e Silva prison, in Maceió, last Saturday (12). Images taken inside the unit showed at least five reeducated people with difficulty breathing and dying for help and medical attention.
According to the government, the decision to dismiss the agents was made after an analysis of the images of the internal circuit of the unit. Authorities did not release details about the clips.
Also according to the secretariat, an investigation was opened to determine the responsibility of the police in the case. The period to complete the investigation is up to 60 days. However, the servers can be removed for another 60 days, if necessary.
Also today, the State Public Defender’s Office sent a letter to the authorities in the area requesting information on the prisoners who appear to be sick inside the unit.
The Alagoas secretariat reported that all the re-educators that appear in the video are well and were “treated promptly by a Seris Health Management team, being sent, as a precaution, to the field hospital installed in the penitentiary system itself, where they are in observation”.
“They will be evaluated again and must return to the unit of origin only when they are fully recovered,” says a note from the Alagoas government.
The state has 66 inmates
According to the Alagoas government, 66 prisoners who showed symptoms and had confirmation of covid-19 through tests are hospitalized and under treatment at the field hospital. Another 65 have recovered from the disease. There are no reports of prisoners killed by covid-19 in the state.
The secretariat also guaranteed that it has carried out a regular cleaning up of all prison units. “Now Seris – which has a multidisciplinary team, including an infectious disease doctor – is working to resume the prison routines that had to be suspended due to the pandemic, due to the risk of contagion,” he says.
After repeated protests by family members -who closed avenues in Maceió-, the secretariat began gradually, a week ago, the delivery of food by relatives to the reeducated.
A health barrier installed at the entrance of the prison system has health professionals, and according to the folder, the relatives receive guidance on hand hygiene and distance. There is still no forecast of recurring visits to the units.
