Nisa Alemán recounted on a local radio station that her brother, Derimán Alemán, who suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, passed away in 2025 after experiencing intense pain for days without receiving the required medical assistance. According to her account, the young man constantly complained of bodily pain, and other inmates could corroborate his complaints.

The family maintains that the prison's security cameras show evidence of the inmate's serious health condition. Footage from the day of his death shows Derimán needing help to walk, eventually being transferred in a wheelchair. His sister laments that, even then, it took hours to get him to the hospital, and the transfer was not made by ambulance.

Nisa Alemán expressed the family's helplessness in the face of a lack of resources to be heard, mentioning that she sent numerous emails and tried unsuccessfully to contact the social worker. "The least I could have imagined is that they would let my brother die," she confessed with pain, feeling "naive" for having believed her brother was safer in prison than on the street.

The notification of the death to the family was described as "cold and ungracious," which exacerbated their suffering. Eight months later, the family continues to seek explanations and held a peaceful protest outside the prison, expressing gratitude for the support received.

Derimán's sister emphasized that her fight is for justice for her brother and for other families with inmates, denouncing that "many ugly things happen" and that inmates' human rights are often violated because "no one finds out what goes on inside".

The family hopes that the ongoing judicial investigation will determine responsibilities and that "whoever needs to be held accountable will be." Nisa Alemán concluded by stating that not transferring a person in time, not assisting them, or taking too long to do so, is equivalent to "letting a person die," and that this "has consequences."