Blackout in Amapá prompts organizations to request information on prisons
Human rights groups fear the power outage will lead to a deterioration of the situation in prisons
The social movement called “National Decarceration Agenda” and Conectas sent the Amapá state governor Waldez Góes on Friday, November 13, a request for information on the conditions in the prison system on account of the blackout in the state.
The main intention of the organizations is to discover how the state’s prisons and youth detention centers are coping with the crisis. Amapá has had no electrical energy for several days now.
The organizations want to know how staff and prisoners are being instructed to deal with the situation and whether hygiene products, medicines, food and water are being provided.
“Although (…) it is recognized that this is a state-wide problem, it is imperative for the state government – and society in general – to be vigilant to prevent historically marginalized and vulnerable people from being neglected in attempts at normalization and having their situation unjustifiably aggravated,” said the organizations in the document.
