A prisoner, disappointed that his beloved wife did not come to visit him in prison on Christmas Eve, decided to amputate his penis and he began to bleed in the jail cell until he almost died. Every year, the prisoner waits for the moment when he will be able to meet his wife on their communion visit, but this year she chose not to come and the prisoner, whose name remains anonymous, chose to take an extreme step.
Prison guards from Porto III, the city of Puerto de Santa Maria in southern Spain, saved the prisoner’s life after finding him covered in large amounts of blood, and nearly died from the amount of blood he lost. After the extreme incident, the inmate was transferred to the mental health center at the prison, for fear of threatening his life again. An organization representing the city’s prison workers, called TAMPM Puertos, said: “The woman came but finally decided she did not want to go in to meet him.” It is also not known whether the medics were able to reconnect the prisoner’s penis back into place.
This is not the first act of self-harm taking place within the walls of Porto III Prison, as last September an inmate was rushed to the local hospital after cutting and eating both of his ears. The prisoner, who carried out the horrific cannibalism, was also taken to the mental ward in the prison. Following these cases, the Prisoners’ Union stressed to the local press that they would place more emphasis on secure psychiatric units within the regular prison facilities.