“The Cuneo prison, like many others in Italy, is going through a very complex phase due to the significant increase in inmates and the lack of penitentiary police personnel”. The mayor of Cuneo wrote it in a post on her social media channels Patrizia Manassero. The situation of the Cerialdo prison has ended up in the local news several times in recent months, due to the numerous episodes of violence against Penitentiary Police officers reported by the unions.
“A situation that weighs on the health of both the officers, forced to live in harsh and unsafe situations, and the prisoners, who in the most serious cases take their own lives, as explained by the Prisoners’ Guarantor at Saturday’s mobilization in which the ‘councillor Olivero“, commented the Mayor: “For this reason, in recent days in the Prefecture I met and expressed my closeness to the trade unions that represent the staff employed every day at the facility”.
“I thank the Prefect for his availability and the Honorable Chiara Gribaudo for the visit to Cerialdo and for the solicitation commitment that she will continue to carry out so that the Ministry of Justice intervenes as soon as possible with more hirings and social projects, so that the well-being of the workers and of the prisoners it is also that of the whole city”, closed the first town in Cuneo.
