TERAMO. Third suicide since the beginning of the year in Castrogno prison: the 34-year-old Macedonian in January Jeton Bislimi The twenty-year-old of Roma ethnicity was accused of the attempted murder of his wife in Capestrano in March Patrick Guarnieriin June Giuseppe Santoleri. A bulletin that will probably have to be updated with other numbers during 2024.
For the Sappe union “every suicide is a defeat”. The provincial secretary declares Giuseppe Pallini and the general one Donato Capece: «Such episodes bring with them the failure of the penitentiary system, sometimes incapable of intercepting the discomfort of the most vulnerable who see the only way out in the extreme gesture. We are dismayed and heartbroken: a prisoner who takes his own life in prison is a defeat for the State and for all of us who work on the front line. We could hypothesize a new penitentiary system divided into three levels: the first, for less serious crimes with a prison sentence of no more than three years, characterized by alternative sentences to prison, such as probation; the second level concerns prison sentences exceeding three 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.” For Gennarino De Fazio, general secretary of Uilpa penitentiary police «we need a prison decree to deflate prison overcrowding, allow the extraordinary and accelerated hiring of officers in the penitentiary police force and ensure the strengthening of healthcare, especially of a psychiatric nature. Santoleri is the 44th inmate to take his own life in Italian prisons since the beginning of the year.”
For Aldo Di Giacomo, secretary of the S.PP penitentiary police union, declares: «The other side of the coin of the prison emergency is the increase in aggression and violence against prison staff which has reached 40% more in the space of a few months. On the same day as the suicide in Teramo, 8 officers were attacked and forced to seek medical attention. The government and the prison administration are unable to counter this situation. The much desired change of direction has not occurred with this government with which we have seen an increase in indifference to the problems of prisons.”(dp)
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