Prisoners drink froggy water

THE EDITOR: I am a prison officer attached to the Golden Grove Prison facility, located in Arouca. I am writing to express my concern about one of the many inhumane conditions that the human prisoners are faced with each day. 

The water tanks are infested with frogs. Yes, amphibians! This is the water that they (the prisoners) are forced to drink, because there is no other source or supply provided for them. This is the water they have to take their baths with. I have seen many of them develop severe skin blemishes, due to the impurity of their water source. They are people too! Not because society judges them for what they have done, what they have failed to do; or what we as the law enforcers think they did they should be treated like animals, or grass. They are human beings just like you and me. Please be these human prisoners voice; let them be heard.

TMC
Arouca