The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion is chastis­ing act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe for what they call his con­tin­ued si­lence dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency, say­ing morale among of­fi­cers is ex­treme­ly low.

In a Face­book post, the As­so­ci­a­tion said it had been nine days since the SOE was de­clared, and yet of­fi­cers had re­ceived no com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the head of the Prison Ser­vice. “Your si­lence is deaf­en­ing, sir,” it said.

The As­so­ci­a­tion al­so took aim at what it de­scribed as “sen­sa­tion­al claims” be­ing made about life be­hind bars, par­tic­u­lar­ly the sug­ges­tion that a pris­on­er at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison had ac­cess to a 65-inch tele­vi­sion.