The National Union of Prison Guards demanded this Friday a meeting with the new justice minister before the end of April, deeming it necessary to discuss the current situation with prison services “before a disaster occurs.”
“We need to have a serious conversation about prison services before there is a disaster, and for now we have confidence in this new leader and minister,” Luse Frederico Morais, leader of the union representing prison guards, said of the minister’s appointment. Justice Rita Yudice.
The union leader said a meeting with the new minister should take place “as soon as possible”, setting a deadline of the end of April, as it was important to identify the “serious problems” in the prison system, namely insecurity. , staffing, salary increases and the assignment of a mission allowance equivalent to that of the judicial police.
Making a career as a prison guard attractive is the problem that needs to be addressed most urgently, given that there is a “huge shortage of guards,” according to Frederico Morais.
“There are about 1,500 prison guards missing, and if we don’t create attraction, they can open all sorts of competitions and no one will come for a career,” he said, recalling attacks suffered by prison guards. in recent months by prisoners.
The union leader said the attacks were due to staff shortages leading to “insecurity” in prisons.
“We urgently need to solve the problems,” he said, threatening “strikes to stop the work of prisons, something that has never happened before in Portugal” if the new minister does not accept a union to solve the problems.
Lawyer Rita Alarcão Judice, daughter of the former President of the Bar and former Social Democratic leader of the Lisbon PSD district José Miguel Judice, will become the new Minister of Justice of the government led by Luis Montenegro, a former partner of the PLMJ lawyers from 2013 to 2023.
Prime Minister-designate Luis Montenegro and the ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government will take office on Tuesday, and the secretaries of state two days later, with debates on the government program scheduled for April 11 and 12.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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