TERAMO – Firm stance taken by the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union after the attempted escape of a prison inmate from the TERAMO hospital.
Giuseppe Pallini, secretary of the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union, reconstructs the event: “This morning, around three o’clock, a North African inmate recently transferred from another institution, guarded at the Teramo hospital, after a scuffle with the escorting police personnel attempted to escape by throwing himself from the window of the room on the first floor. Falling disastrously to the ground, the man suffered a broken foot and was subsequently operated on.”Pellets external the “public applause of KNOWS to the Penitentiary Police personnel responsible for the escort who he avoided The fulfillment of a serious critical event with extreme professionalism. By now even the escape attempts of prisoners, yes whether they happen from hospitals, courts or prisons are becoming a mere statistic” and highlights that “LThe event was particularly critical because it took place in a hospital in the presence of other patients, medical and healthcare personnel, but it was managed as best as possible by the Penitentiary Police, who pay heavily in terms of stress and operations for these serious and continuous critical episodes. Attacks, scuffles, injuries to staff, as well as brawls and attempted suicides, are unfortunately commonplace. AND for us it is important and urgent to envisage a new custodial model”. “Yesterday, however, in the Catrogno prison the timely intervention of the police prevented another prisoner, also a foreigner, from taking his own life, confirming the operational critical issues that the Blue Basques of the Corps have to deal with on a daily basis”, concludes Pallini.
“We are talking about policemen who serve in sections at the limit (and beyond…) the minimum conditions of healthiness, who are forced to work hours and hours of overtime every day to cope with institutional tasks, who do not even have the tools useful to guarantee their own physical safety, such as the taser”, highlights SAPPE general secretary Donato Capece. Which comes back to urge “urgent measures”, starting with “a harsher sentence for prisoners who attack Penitentiary Police personnel during their stay and serving their sentence in prison” and give them “expulsions of all foreign prisoners in Italy, often protagonists of more serious critical events in prison”. “StThere is a strong and evident presence of the State, which cannot tolerate this widespread impunity, and urgent and effective measures are needed!”, continues the trade unionist, who appeals to the DAP leaders to create the conditions “to restore order and security, truly implementing that zero tolerance towards those violent prisoners who, even in prison, are convinced that they can continue to commit crimes with absolute impunity!”. “We need strict rules to restore order and security in prisons, truly implementing that zero tolerance towards violent inmates who, even in prison, are convinced that they can continue to commit crimes with absolute impunity! Here We need the strong and clear presence of the State, which cannot tolerate this widespread impunity, and urgent and effective measures are needed!”, concludes the SAPPE leader.
