Paulo Gonçalves, the arsonist whose actions caused the 'great 2016 fire,' is currently serving a 14 year sentence, for causing the fire which started in São Roque, and which destroyed vast tracts of mountainous areas before setting alight the island's city centre.
Posts tagged as “Funchal Prison”
The Director General of Reinsertion and Prison Services (DRSP), Rómulo Mateus, confirmed today that the Funchal Prison Facility (EPF), has a few problems, as do most prisons in Portugal, and although it is almost at full capacity there are no overcrowding issues of the physical infrastructure to report.
A 30-year-male prisoner died from a heart attack this morning at Funchal Prison, Cancela.