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It took place in Council Chamber of the Province of Benevento Patrizia’s press conference at the Rocca dei Rettori SanninoGuarantor of people deprived of personal freedom, on the topic of living conditions in prisons and for the rehabilitation of the prison system.
At the meeting, which was part of the initiatives taken by the National Conference of the Conference of Territorial Guarantors of Persons Deprived of Personal Liberty, announced by the Conference Spokesperson Samuele Ciambriellothe Provincial Councilor of Benevento Antonio participated Capuanorepresenting the President of the Province Nino Lombardi.
Capuano ensured the utmost consideration of the Benevento Province Authority to initiatives to raise awareness of public opinion and of the institutions themselves on the state of the prison system by the Guarantor of persons deprived of personal liberty
moreover established with a recent vote of the Provincial Council.
Sannino, in his speech, recalled how the mobilization of the National Conference of Guarantors continues to raise awareness among all citizens, the national Government, Parliament and the Judiciary on what happens every day in prisons.
The meeting on May 18th convened throughout Italy, explained Sannino, aims to underline the value that the simultaneous visit of Pope francesco to the inmates of the Verona prison, and falls exactly one month after the first national event to raise awareness on the delicate matter.
Sannino then recalled how the National Conference intends to renew this deadline every month.
Sannino then read the document prepared by the National Conference which states that “Two months have passed since the appeal “Urgent interventions are needed on suicides in prison” with which the President of the Republic invited the political class of our
country to urgently adopt immediate measures to ease the climate of tension that exists in Italian prisons, caused mainly by overcrowding, lack of staff and the inefficiency of intramural healthcare”.
Sannino, continuing to read the document, stated that the National Conference, “with bitterness and great concern, he finds himself observing the indifference of politics towards the worsening of the state of suffering of the prisoners, towards the worsening of living conditions in Italian prisons which, far from allowing “that realization of constitutional face of punishment”, continue to betray the basic European and international constitutional principles on which the rule of law rests and to humiliate, on a daily basis, the human dignity of restricted people”.
“The National Conference of Guarantorsadded Sannino, therefore renews the appeal already launched and asks for “immediate legal solutions to politics through measures that reduce overcrowding and to the Penitentiary Administration through measures that improve living conditions inside prisons”.
Instead, the Conference asks «from civil society a sensitivity that goes beyond the prison-centric vision».
The National Conference of Guarantors, concluded Sannino, has put forward the following proposals:
1. Urgent approval of measures to reduce prison overcrowding;
2. Guarantee access to alternative measures to prisoners who, among the approximately 30 thousand who are serving a sentence/or a residual sentence of less than three years, are in a position to access them. Of these, 5,080 prisoners have to serve just 8 months in prison.
3. Tone down the circular on the reorganization of the medium security circuit to guarantee treatment activities: socio-work inclusion projects, cultural, recreational and relational activities.
4. Application of the ruling of the Constitutional Court n. 10 of 2024 regarding the protection of the right to affection of detained persons.
