Inmate tries to escape from hospital – Teramo

TERAMO. In September the prisoner escaped from Castrogno prison with a rope and was never recaptured. On the night between Monday and Tuesday the prisoner who, after having attacked a prison police officer who was guarding him in the hospital where he was being treated for checks, attempted to escape by throwing himself from the window of the room on the first floor of the Mazzini. This is a North African prisoner who arrived in Castrogno on Saturday from the Regina Coeli prison in Rome where he was imprisoned for drug-related crimes.
The man suffered a broken foot in the fall and after undergoing surgery he was taken back to prison. He writes Giuseppe Pallini provincial secretary of Sappe: «Now even the escape attempts of prisoners, whether they happen 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, fights and injuries to staff, as well as brawls and attempted suicides, are unfortunately commonplace. For us it is important and urgent to provide a new custodial model.” Pallini also highlights how on Monday “the timely intervention of the police prevented another prisoner from taking his own life, confirming the operational criticalities that the Blue Basques have to deal with on a daily basis”.
The general secretary of Sappe intervened on the issue Donato Capece who, once again highlighting the critical issues within one of the most overcrowded prisons in the region, wrote: «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 needed to guarantee their own physical safety, such as the taser”. Capece has once again called for “urgent measures”, starting with “a tightening of sentences for inmates who attack penitentiary police personnel during their stay and serving their sentences in prison. We need the strong and clear presence of the State, which cannot tolerate this widespread impunity and urgent measures are needed.”(dp)
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