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About 700 convicts from the Nis Penitentiary-Correctional Institution in Nis have gone on hunger strike because they are not satisfied with the protection measures against the root of the infection, the Association for Post-Criminal Acceptance and Re-socialization of Convicts announced today.
Photo: ZMAbout twenty members of the prisoners’ families gathered today in front of the Nis Penitentiary to support its members in their “fight” for better protection against corona infection and better medical care for those who have been infected. They carried banners that read, among other things, “Where do we get the money for PCR” and “We are fourth class citizens?”
Jelena Milojković, who participated in the protest, said that there was a relative in Niš penitentiary who feared that he could be infected with Kovid 19, so she approached all the competent institutions and pointed out that a problem would arise and that to relieve the prison.
– Our environment, Macedonians, Slovenes, freed people from serving their sentences to protect them, and when the time comes to comply, people will come back. No one is escaping from their obligation to pay that debt to the state, he said.
Ivan Mitic, president of the association “For a new beginning”, which supported the protest, said that “there are a large number of infected” in that institution, illustrating this by stating that 17 are positive.
– We have hundreds of calls from both prisoners and their families, who do not have adequate medical care and do not receive medication because there are not enough – he said.
He said the association had recently asked the Justice Ministry to pass an amnesty law to reduce overbooking in prisons during the Kovid 19 epidemic, as well as more probation and a three-month break in serving sentences. for convicted persons over 55 years of age. in the risk group.
The Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions previously categorically denied that there was a massive infestation of corona infection in the Nis Penitentiary, and stated that all preventive and protective measures were regularly implemented.
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