a pressure cooker for civil servants

The official data is indisputable: attacks against prison staff have increased by 126 percent since Pedro Sánchez was president of the government and Fernando Grande-Marlaska was interior minister. While 223 attacks were recorded in 2018, the data for 2024 reached … the 504. As 2025 draws to a close, the trend has not stopped and unions denounce that an attack occurs every fourteen hours. They denounce the “policy of benevolence” practiced by the Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, which does not provide civil servants with self-protection measures (from material to administrative tools) based on the change in the profile of the type of prisoner and the increase in dangerousness. Prisons are filled with thugs from organized gangs trained in violent behavior that have turned the centers into a pressure cooker. There is an urgent need to improve the safety of prison guards.