Madrid/Alfredo Ulecia Planche, a common prisoner who served in the provincial prison of Guantanamo, died on September 7 in jail. With it, the number of deaths in custody counted by the Cubalex Legal Advisory Center amounts to 32.
Alfredito, as he was known in the prison, where he worked as a cook, served a 25 -year prison sentence. According to Cubalex, he was accused of stealing food at his job, which is why the boss expelled him from his position. As a protest, the prisoner consumed psychoopármacos.
But, in addition, he was punished for these facts. For three days he remained isolated in a room that Cubalex describes as “unhealthy” despite being in the medical post. There he was without access to food and immobilized, a torture known as “mechanical fixation”, also called “Potro” or “Turkish bed”, which consists of keeping the person tied.
It was apparently, since another prisoner realized his state when prison officials warned the severity of the matter and verified that he had died. The family was informed of his death as a result of an overdose and received the body on the same day of death.
It was, apparently, from the fact that another prison
“Each death in custody is the responsibility of the State, which has the obligation to guarantee decent living conditions and to investigate in an immediate, independent and transparent investigate any death that occurred under its control,” the organization denounces. “The situation in prisons is alarming. Cubalex has documented to date 32 deaths of inmates, a fact that reflects the serious crisis of the penitentiary system: inhuman conditions, violence, self -harm, malnutrition, disease, negligence and lack of medical care, among other causes,” he adds on his Facebook account.
Alfredito Ulecia Planche is not included – for a matter of dates – in the report that this Thursday made public the Cuban Prison Documentation Center (CDPC), which recorded this August 94 complaints related to people imprisoned in Cuba, of which 75 implied some kind of violation of their rights. His list of deaths in custody amounts to four in 2025.
Three inmates died from “lack of health or negligence assistance” and another during a hunger strike and “after self -collons as a way of protest to claim their innocence.” To this description corresponds to the Death of Yan Carlos Gonzálezat the beginning of July at the Arnaldo Milián Provincial Hospital, in Santa Clara.
The report speaks of 81 violations of prison rights last August in 31 Cuban prisons. The most frequent violations incidents were harassment or repression (fifty cases), denial of medical assistance (thirty), precarious conditions of life in prison (twenty), and problems related to food (twelve).
The greatest incidence of these cases occurs in the east combined (Havana), Cuba yes (Holguín) and sweet potato (Santiago de Cuba).
The greatest incidence of these cases occurs in the east combined (Havana), Cuba yes (Holguín) and sweet potato (Santiago de Cuba)
The CDPC identifies at least 46 inmates –42 men and 4 women-as direct victims of these violations, and quotes fourteen complaints that collectively affected the entire population of certain prison establishments.
“The beams and corporal punishments remain usual practices and transfers continued to be employed as a form of harassment, particularly against political prisoners,” they said.
Among the prisoners identified as victims of more rights violations are Mario Alberto Hernández Leyva (Eastern Combined Prison), Sissi Abascal Zamora (Provincial Prison of Women of Matanzas), Yosvany Rosell García Caso (Prison Cuba Yes, Holguín), Maykel Castillo Pérez (Provincial Prison of Pinar del Río) and Eider Frometa Allen (Provincial Prison of Guantanamo).
In addition, the document adds that diseases “propagate in unhealthy environments where drugs are scarce for a criminal population weakened by poor diet, which in many cases reaches states of malnutrition”, to which food served in poor condition is added in at least nine prisons in seven provinces, highlighting that of Agüica, in Matanzas.
