ROME – In recent days, the G. Fregosi council chamber of Palazzo Valentini in Rome hosted the assembly of the Conference of Territorial Guarantors of Persons Deprived of Liberty. The president of the Union of Italian Criminal Chambers, Francesco Petrelli, and the president of the National Magistrates Association, Giuseppe Santalucia, also participated in the meeting.
The assembly observed a minute of silencein memory of 56 year old prisoner That during the night he took his own life in Ferrara prison. To announce the fortieth suicide of 2024 in Italian prisons was the Spokesman of the Conference of Guarantors, Samuele Ciambriello.
The work continued with the requests of the coordinators of the forums of regional, provincial and municipal guarantors, which was answered by the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration Giovanni Russo, who spoke during the morning. The Guarantor of the rights of detained persons in the Calabria region, Luca Muglia reported the different ones critical issues of the penitentiary system and the Calabrian territory, from overcrowding to the difficult ones conditions of detention, from staff shortages to critical events. Also present was the Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty Province of Cosenza, Francesco Cosentini.
Guarantor of Calabria «eliminate plexiglass barriers, they are inhumane and degrading»
The President of the college of the National Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty Felice Maurizio D’Ettoreillustrated to the assembly of territorial guarantors, i contents of the draft memorandum of understanding which provides for the carrying out of common activities and methods of collaboration relating to the monitoring of places of deprivation of personal liberty. In his speech, the Guarantor of Calabriamember of the National Coordination of the Conference, reported the delicate issue to the Head of the Russian Department question of plexiglass shields located in some pavilions of Calabrian penitentiary institutions.
“Harmful effects of plexiglass barriers expected posted on the windows of many detention rooms – he said Muglia – and the urgent need to remove them due to summer temperatures, I have informed the Department that in the absence of active feedback I will refer the matter to the Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the Council of Europe. I reiterated, in fact, that where negative factors exist at the same time, such as the lack of air and/or natural light, poor ventilation, an insufficient or too high temperature in the premises and poor hygienic-sanitary conditions, the European Court of Human Rights The man recognized the existence of inhuman and degrading treatments and the violation of the art. 3 of the Convention”.
“The increase dizzying temperatures in the detention rooms where there are shields – concluded the Regional Guarantor – it is putting the already difficult living conditions of people deprived of liberty to the test. I hope this unfortunate situation will be put to an end.”
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