A prison

justice points out that it could be suicide

And prisoner convicted of murder He has died early Monday after turn on the mattress of your cell. The event has occurred around 3.00, in module 5 of the prison of Mas d’Enric (Tarragona). As the Department of Justice has aimed in a statement, “everything indicates that it could be suicide.”

The inmate was alone in his cell when he caused the fire. When they were alerted, the officials came to their aid, activated the emergency protocol and extinguished the flames.

It was the penalty workers themselves who attended the prisoner, before they did the health professionals of the prison. Despite their efforts, they have only been able to certify their death, probably indicates justice, by smoke inhalation.

The inmate, classified in the second degree, fulfilled a 22 years for a crime of murder and planned to obtain definitive freedom in 2043.

After the event, the judicial delegation has moved in the penitentiary center and investigates the circumstances of the death. At the same time, the General Directorate of Penitentiary Affairs And the prison itself is collecting all the information to analyze in depth the case in search of alert signals to take into account in the constant improvement of the prevention systems.