ZAGREB, Aug 30 (Hina) - The Croatian Justice Police Union on Friday said that the reason for inmates refusing prison food in Lepoglava penitentiary was in no way prison guards' incorrect behaviour towards prisoners, but the discovery
of narcotics on one of the inmates.
ZAGREB, Aug 30 (Hina) - The Croatian Justice Police Union on Friday
said that the reason for inmates refusing prison food in Lepoglava
penitentiary was in no way prison guards' incorrect behaviour
towards prisoners, but the discovery of narcotics on one of the
inmates. #L#
"Beating, arrogance and brutality are in no way reasons for the
strike. Instead, the discovery of a suspicious substance is," union
president Branko Milic told a news conference Friday.
Milic said the officers used justifiable physical force with an
inmate who swallowed four packets of suspicious content, which left
no consequences to his health.
The prisoner was taken to the prison sanatorium to control the
process of decomposition of the packages, not because of physical
injuries, Milic said.
The union reacted to accusations by prisoners that they were being
mistreated by prison officers. Sixty inmates refused prison food
for six days this week, and instead ate canned food bought in the
prison canteen.
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