Public Defender's Office demands water supply for prison in Agreste region.
Following reports that inmates at the Agreste prison in Girau do Ponciano were ingesting urine due to a lack of water, the Public Defender's Office of Alagoas filed a Public Civil Action demanding immediate regularization of the situation.
Alagoas247 - The Public Defender's Office of the State of Alagoas, through its office in Arapiraca, filed a Public Civil Action requesting that the judge assigned to the criminal enforcement court of the region order the immediate regularization of the water supply to the 720 prisoners who are in the recently inaugurated Agreste Prison, located in the municipality of Girau do Ponciano.
On Tuesday (14), mothers and wives of prisoners reported that the inmates were drinking urine, due to a lack of water at the Girau do Ponciano Maximum Security Prison.
In the legal action, the Public Defender's Office also requests that the Judiciary temporarily prohibit the entry of new prisoners into the unit until the water supply is normalized at the location.
The request made by the Public Defender's Office is due to the prison's water supply being rationed. Each cell, with eight inmates, is reportedly receiving water for only ten minutes every hour, which is insufficient for the inmates' hygiene, such as showering, using the toilet, and cleaning the cell, in addition to their own consumption.
The plaintiff, public defender André Chalub, also requested that the water supply be provided in a way that reaches at least thirty minutes per hour per cell. "What is happening in the prison is that, because the problem lies in the plumbing system, the artesian wells are not supplying water to the cells," explained the defender, emphasizing that currently the water supply is being provided by water trucks, as the system of artesian wells built in the prison is not functioning.
In addition to normalizing the water supply, the public defender is requesting that the trucks that deliver the water to the inmates be inspected by the Health Surveillance agency to determine if the vehicles are fit to transport the product without affecting the prisoners' health. "The Health Surveillance agency should verify the origin of the water supplied by the tanker trucks, the health and hygiene of these tanks, and whether they are properly registered and not sourced from gas stations," said the public defender.
With gazetaweb.com