A 74-year-old prisoner, Giuseppe Santoleri, took his own life by hanging himself in a cell in the Teramo prison. The man was serving an 18-year sentence for the murder, in collaboration with his son, of his wife, the painter Renata Rapposelli, which occurred on 9 October 2017 in Giulianova. “At 7 the cellmate […]
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A detained Of 74 years old, Giuseppe Santolerihe took his own life hanging himself in a prison cell Teramo. The man was serving a sentence of 18 years for the murder, in collaboration with his son, of his wife, the painter Renata Rapposelli, which occurred on 9 October 2017 in Giulianova. “At 7 o’clock company of cell immediately called the police officer on duty and rescue operations were immediately launched in a desperate attempt to save them life, but they were of no avail efforts profuse,” he said Giuseppe Pallinithe secretary of the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union.
“As far as we have been able to learn, it is a restricted subject that has never been the protagonist of excesses and he always diligently observed the rules penitentiaries”. An episode which, according to the trade unionist, brings with it “the failure of the penitentiary system sometimes incapable of intercepting the discomfort of the most vulnerable who see an escape route in the extreme gesture”. Not only. “It is a defeat for the state and for all of us who work on the front line.”
And the 44th victim in Italian penitentiary institutions since the beginning of the year – he declared in a statement Aldo Di Giacomosecretary of the Penitentiary Police Union – perhaps someone is thinking that by not intervening, yes they will empty prisons.” Then Di Giacomo highlights another side of the coin of the “prison emergency”: “the increase in attacks and violence against prison staff who reached the 40% more within a few months. On the same day as the suicide in Teramo, I am eight the officers attacked and forced to resort to medical care”: And then he concludes: “The government and the Penitentiary Administration I am unable to counter this situation. The much hoped for change of direction has not occurred with this government with which we have seen an increase in indifference to the problems of prisons”.
Necessary, according to the You knowof urgent interventions to deal with the constant situation of tension experienced in Italian prisons: “One could hypothesize a new penitentiary system divided into three levels”, explains the general secretary Donato Capece. “The first, for less serious crimes with a prison sentence of no more than 3 years, characterized by alternative penalties to prison, such as the institution of “probation”; the second level concerns prison sentences exceeding 3 years, which will inevitably have to be served in prison, but in much less crowded institutions due to the relief resulting from the operation of the first level and a notable reduction in the use of precautionary custody . Finally, the third level is that of maximum security, in which containment in prison is the priority objective”, concludes the Sappe leader.
The number of victims in Italian prisons has risen to 44 since the beginning of 2024. And in Teramo it is not the first time such an episode has happened. Last March 17, a young inmate of the prison of Castrognoof about 20 years, had taken his own life by hanging himself in the bathroom on his birthday. While on April 2, an inmate of 32 years oldwho had been locked up for a few days in Uta prison (Cagliari) he had taken his own life during the night. And again, again in Sardinia, in the Bancali prison (Sassari), it was a man who committed suicide 52 years old.
