“Around 1.40pm today, a Sicilian prisoner attempted to escape from the Salerno prison named after “Antonio Caputo” by first climbing over the ‘passage’ wall of the sixth section and then continuing his escape attempt by throwing himself from the roof of the gym from where he could have attempted to reach the exit from the penitentiary.”
Orlando Scocca and Daniele Giacomaniello, respectively Coordinator for Campania and National Director for discipline of the FP CGIL Penitentiary Police, made this known: “The attempt was immediately noticed by the officer on sentry duty who immediately raised the alarm. His movements were followed by the other police officers who intervened and managed to convince him to get out after his attempt had evidently failed.”
“These episodes – add the trade unionists – no longer surprise us because when you work in an institution where the inmates are 146% compared to those expected, episodes like these are only the confirmation of what we have been denouncing for some time: the chronological age of people detained goes down and that of Penitentiary Police personnel increases. Without hiring agents, the safety of penitentiary institutions will be increasingly at risk.
Mirko Manna National Coordinator of FP Cgil: “An organic vision of prisons has been missing for years, but this Government is only providing buffer solutions, usable more for electoral adverts which will not improve the condition of prisons in the coming months which promise to be extremely difficult if not they will hire at least four thousand Policemen in the next two years.”
