Prison, woman arrested with hashish for her husband – Teramo

TERAMO. The alarm is in the numbers that give no respite between a few police officers and ever-increasing inmates in the Castrogno prison. And if this were not enough, there are the now daily emergencies that are repeated such as cell phones and drugs sent to prisoners.
It happened again, it probably will happen again. In one week, three cell phones intended for prisoners were brought into the Teramo prison and a woman was arrested with forty grams of hashish hidden in her underwear. The drugs were intended for the husband who she was supposed to meet in the weekly interview. The complaint comes from Giuseppe Pallini, provincial secretary of the Sappe, who writes: «This week, following incensed investigative activity, three smartphone cell phones were found inside cells and on Friday, an Italian woman was stopped while she was trying to introduce 40 grams of hashish into the inside the prison to be given to the detained husband on the occasion of the interview. All those responsible have been reported. Sappe congratulates the Teramo penitentiary police staff who, despite the many daily critical issues, tirelessly carry out legality within the Castrogno prison”. The general secretary of Sappe intervenes again on the Teramo case Donato Capece. «The problem of the introduction of drugs and telephones into prison is well known and we are well aware of its extent which, nowadays is truly significant and continues to grow day after day», he says, «in particular, with regards to mobile phones we are concerned not only by their use for illicit purposes outside the prison, as repeatedly found in the investigative activities that are carried out daily in penitentiaries and throughout the country, but also by the actual trade that is present within the walls where a smartphone given between prisoners multiplies its value dramatically, becoming a source of huge illicit profits for those who manage to manage the trade”. The Sappe leader recalls that «since 2020, introducing a cell phone into prison is a crime punishable by a sentence ranging from one to four years, but the continuous increase in seizures shows that it is not a sufficient deterrent to stem the phenomenon. In our opinion, concrete interventions are needed aimed at updating the concept of punishment and its execution in today’s times, with today’s technologies and the current penitentiary reality.”(dp)
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