Union alleges drugs, violence amid understaffing crisis at Central Prison

The Prison Officers’ Branch Council of the ISOTITA union has raised serious allegations over conditions at Nicosia Central Prison, citing understaffing, overcrowding, violent incidents, drug trafficking and what it describes as an inability to run the facility safely.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the union said two simultaneous clashes between inmates broke out on August 5, in Wing 5 and Wing 2B. It said one inmate was injured in the Wing 5 incident....