Prison officers at the Centro Penitenciario de Almería stopped a woman on the morning of 2 November 2026 before a vis a vis, an intimate visit with an inmate.[1] During the search of the woman, they found several bellotas, small wrapped pellets, of a substance described as presumed hashish.[1] The discovery kept the seized material from reaching the prison modules.[1] Officers handed both the visitor and the suspected drug over to the Guardia Civil.[1]
The officers who made the find work in the prison’s Communications area and were carrying out routine checks before the intimate meeting.[1] The account comes from TAMPM, the prison-staff union section of Tu Abandono Me Puede Matar, which publicly praised the officers’ professionalism and attention.[1] The union said keeping narcotics out matters because drugs inside prisons can cause conflicts and disciplinary incidents.[1]
TAMPM used the interception to denounce what it calls a structural staffing deficit of more than 60 officers at the Almería prison, partly blaming the opening of a social-integration centre without matching staff.[1] It said the Communications area alone is short by more than 25 officers even though it controls meetings between inmates and visitors.[1] The union demanded urgent action from the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions and the Interior Ministry to reinforce the prison’s workforce.[1]
