The General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions has asked all prisons to transfer detailed information about the extraordinary regularization process to foreign inmates, to prepare a statistical record of applications among the inmate population, to provide documentation "as soon as possible" and to provide linguistic support when necessary.
According to the communication from the General Directorate of Penal Execution and Social Reintegration, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior and to which Europa Press has had access, it is ordered that "adequate information be guaranteed to the foreign inmate population and, where appropriate, facilitate a copy of the documentation that may be held by the prison administration".
For this, it is indicated that foreign inmates be informed about the existence of Royal Decree 316/2026 of April 14, using the notice boards, libraries, or schools of the centers for its dissemination, "determining the professional from the technical team who will be their reference for these purposes".
The Prison Service's document also specifies that, when necessary, linguistic support should be provided and that "all information required by the applicant should be provided as soon as possible," so that they can process their request without further delay.
In addition, the obligation is established to record in a register and in the personal file of each inmate, whether the documentation is complete or totally or partially missing, with the aim of counting and tracking all regularization requests submitted from prison.
In parallel, the professional association of prison workers Tu Abandono Me Puede Matar (TAMPM) has criticized the "celerity in regulating measures that seek a benefit for the inmate population" and has contrasted it with the "silence" that, in its opinion, the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions maintains in the face of staff demands.
Among these claims, TAMPM mentions the "unjustified delay" in the recognition of the status of authority agent through the reform of article 80 of the Organic General Penitentiary Law, as well as the implementation of hourly concentration measures that allow for the reduction of displacements considered unnecessary by officials.