In addition to the release of particularly vulnerable prisoners, they have also called for the same measure for pre-trial prisoners, monitoring them with another type of control if necessary. A paper presented to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior warns of the consequences that coronavirus can have on a particularly vulnerable population, demanding the isolation of infected prisoners in a medical facility and not in an individual cell.
In view of the cuts in prison visits, the institutions have called for the Ministry ' s extraordinary telephone calls for prisoners to be free, for regular oral communications to be increased in the newsrooms and for a video call system to be set up.
The organizations say in their note: "Urgent measures must be taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus within prisons and to guarantee the fundamental rights of persons deprived of their liberty."