ANDENNE - Begining of October, two of the three directors of the prison
have been fired or transferred. For the moment, there's only one. The
new director who will come in a few weeks, claims to have made
agreements with the syndicates of the guards to reinforce security and
change the detention regime, for exemple by reorganising the sections
according to the "dangerosity" of the prisoner.
For the rest, nothing
has been changing after the uprising in Andenne a half year ago. All
prisoners remain locked in their cells 23h on 24. No activities, no
lessons, no nothing. At the entrance to the courtyard, everytime
prisoners are greeted by about 20 guards (to avoid hostage takings).
This
last weeks, several guards have been attacked and beaten. Also some
blockades of the court yard took place to denounce the regime and the
detenion conditions. Tensions are rising. The news of a suicide in the
nearby prison of Huy also reached Andenne: a young guy was brought in
prison (it was his first time), put in the isolation regime. He
protested. Late in the night, he was found back dead. Accordingly, he
would have hung himself. Every suicide in prison is a killing by the
State.
25/10/2012
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