Spanish prison stops inmate snacks

Johannesburg, July 5 (ANI): Spain's north-eastern region of Catalonia has decided to stop providing evening snacks to prisoners in its jails as part of cost-cutting measures aimed at tackling the country's crippling economic crisis.

A regional justice department spokesperson said on Wednesday that inmates would no longer receive the customary evening piece of fruit or pastry as part of measures aimed at saving around 2 million Euros a year.

She said that juvenile centre inmates have been exempted from the austerity drive.

The prisoners would however, continue to receive three meals a day and rations would not be reduced, News 24 reported.

Other measures include doubling the price of meals for guards to 6 Euros.

Spain is in double-dip recession with a swollen deficit and near 25 percent unemployment. (ANI)