The treasurer of Radicali Italiani, Filippo Blenginoon Saturday 4 May 2024 visited the Cuneo prison with a delegation from Radicali Cuneo.
“Situation out of control”
“As in most of our penitentiary institutions – declares Blengino – the situation is out of control. As Italian Radicals we have been denouncing for years the total absence of programming, the inhuman conditions to which prisoners are subjected, the dramatic shortage of staff”.
Blengino, Lorenzo Roggia (Secretary of Radicali Cuneo) ed Emanuele Gallo (treasurer Rad Cuneo) e Alice Depetro (RI direction) denounce how the Cuneo prison is also configured “like a powder keg, with alarming and out of control mental distress, continuous attacks on healthcare personnel, complaints from prisoners about the enormous difficulties in accessing services and the responses in time reasonable”.
“A degradation – continues the press release – which brings with it reforms never made, a continuous violation of the re-educational purpose of the sentence, the absence of alternative measures. In Cuneo, as in all Italian prisons, there is a lack of superintendents and inspectors, a worrying increase in the prison population, another 40 inmates will arrive from the Turin prison in a few days. Politics, including local ones, turn a blind eye to a dramatic situation. Here too the suicide emergency has made itself felt, with a twenty-five-year-old inmate took his life at the beginning of the year.”
Then the appeal to the institutions: “We ask again to approve the Giachetti proposal to reduce overcrowding, measures to decriminalize some crimes and measures to increase psychiatric care. We need a proposal for overall prison reform: we cannot waste any more time” .
