TERAMO – After having attacked a prison police officer who was guarding him in the hospital, he attempted to escape by throwing himself from the window of the room on the first floor: the protagonist of the episode, which happened in Teramo, is a North African prisoner recently transferred from another prison, who broke his foot on the occasion. This was announced by the local secretary of the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union, Giuseppe Pallini.
Sappe expressed “public applause to the Penitentiary Police staff assigned to the escort who avoided the occurrence of a serious critical event with extreme professionalism”. “Nowadays – explains Pallini – even the escape attempts of prisoners, whether they occur from hospitals, courts or penal institutions, are becoming a mere statistic. The 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 in the best possible way 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. It is important and urgent for us to envisage a new custodial model.”
“Yesterday, however, in the Castrogno 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”. “We are talking about policemen – highlights the Sappe general secretary Donato Capece – who work 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 needed to guarantee their own physical safety, how can the taser be”.
Capece returns to urge “urgent measures”, starting with “a tightening of sentences for prisoners who attack Penitentiary Police personnel during their stay and serving their sentences in prison” and the “expulsions of all foreign prisoners in Italy , often protagonists of more serious critical events in prison”.
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