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Summary Catalonia is to cease evening snacks to prisoners in its jails to cut costs.
A regional justice department spokeswoman said Wednesday that inmates would no longer receive the customary evening piece of fruit or pastry as part of measures aimed at saving some €2 million ($2.5 million) a year.She said juvenile center inmates have been exempted.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with department regulations, said the prisoners would continue to receive three meals a day and rations would not be reduced.Other measures include doubling the price of meals for guards to €6.Spain is in double-dip recession with a swollen deficit and near 25 percent unemployment.
