“We have no words to describe our frustration in the face of yet another ferocious attack, confirming once again that the Penitentiary Police today are cannon fodder”. This is the comment of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police on the attack by a North African prisoner in solitary confinement, which occurred on Wednesday 17 April, just when the trade unions Sappe, Sinappe, Osapp, Uil Pa, Fns Cisl and Fp Cgil were in the presence of the prefect of Cuneo , to the superintendent of Piedmont, Liguria and Valle D’Aosta and to the mayor of Cuneo Patrizia Manassero to talk about the unmanageable situation of the Cuneo penitentiary.
We read in the statement released by the union: “The officer was pushed against the wall and violently hit his head and back, requiring him to be sent to the local hospital. The colleague even carried out a CT scan on his head and an x-ray on his back to avoid injuries to the skull and spine, and finally reported a six-day prognosis“
“The truth – say the local secretaries of the UILPA penitentiaries Diego Bottin, Luigi Vicario and Flavio Bosco –. What happened at the Cuneo prison was not just an attack on the staff, it was an attack on the State“.
“It is no longer possible to work in these conditions– reports Uilpa – because the inmates have well understood that the Penitentiary Police are not protected, and the inertia on the part of politics and the administration in implementing concrete actions to stem the phenomenon of attacks on staff decrees the impossibility of the reintegration of the offender, resulting just opportunities to show off in the name of re-education”.
“We express solidarity with the wish for a speedy recovery to our injured colleague,– concludes the UilPa Penitentiary Police – but politics and administration must immediately intervene in adapting the structures for violent prisoners, because the current reduction in security in prisons must not only be passed on to the Penitentiary Police, it also pays for the legislative chasm between legitimate use of force and art .613 bis of the criminal code. We also ask that Penitentiary Police officers be equipped with Tasers, who must be able to work more safely and better protect their safety. We need to work so that this electrical impulse device, with the related body cams, are also adopted for the men and women of the Penitentiary Police“.
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