The actions of the General Secretariat of Anti-Criminal Policy to ensure the health of workers and prisoners in the country’s 35 detention centers by implementing measures to reduce and deal with the risk of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic were presented at the conference.
Held today at Korydallos Penitentiary workshop on “COVID-19 Prevention and Containment in the Correctional Community”, organized by General Secretariat of Anti-Criminal Policy of Ministry of Citizen Protection.
The actions of the General Secretariat of Anti-Criminal Policy to ensure the health of workers and prisoners in the country’s 35 detention centers by implementing measures to reduce and deal with the risk of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic were presented at the conference.
The c.g. of Anti-Criminal Policy, Konstantinos G. Papathanasiou, in his greeting initially emphasized that although the World Health Organization recently announced that the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a global emergency, there is no room for complacency.
“We should be alert for every old and new threat to public health, especially inside closed structures, such as ours, where the consequences if not properly managed will be catastrophic,” said Mr. Papathanasiou.
Mr. Papathanasiou described the management of the Covid-19 crisis in prisons as successful, as with the mass vaccination of prisoners and workers, the correct observance of health rules, the introduction for the first time of the electronic visit card and other measures “…we saved lives” .
He then noted that in record time more than 6,700 temporary AMKAs were issued so that those prisoners who wanted to be vaccinated could be vaccinated, while vaccination lines were immediately set up in all prisons in the country.
At the same time, he underlined that in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 the c.g. of Anti-Criminal Policy, spent over 13 million euros on medical care, while over 383 thousand diagnostic tests were carried out in prisons.
Additionally, he emphasized that during the pandemic crisis, 6,300 cases of prisoners and approximately 3,300 cases of penitentiary employees were dealt with, which led to the deaths of 15 prisoners and 5 employees.
The seminar was attended by the Deputy Head of the Directorate -General for Crisis Detention and Crisis Management Management, George Thrapsaniotis, the Deputy Director of the Directorate -General for the Criminal and Policy Policy, Ioannis Lambrakis, the Specialist of the penitentiary Korydallos I.
Source: Skai
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