This morning at the Palazzo della Regione Abruzzo the Red Code coordination Adele DiRocco and the President of the Human Rights of Inmates Nagidia Di Rocco and vice president of the coordination, together with the family members of the young man from Giulia Patrick Guarnieri, who died on 13 March in the Castrogno prison where the prosecutor of Teramo has opened an investigation to shed light on the causes of his death, they are welcomed by the Councilor for Social Policies of the Abruzzo Regional Council Roberto Santangelo.
Three months after the young man’s tragic death, there were numerous demonstrations in his honor and requests to relevant bodies of all institutional levels.
The Presidents of the Associations mentioned above together with the Guarnieri Family brought the case to a parliamentary question already discussed in May and presented this morning at the Abruzzo Region welcomed the Regional Councilor Roberto Santangelo to discuss the Castrogno Prison emergency and request a Regional question.
Deaths in prison have risen to 4 since the beginning of the year and numerous problems crowding out the penitentiary institution include prisoners with pathologies not compatible with the prison system, prisoners in pregnancy, prisoners with minors and as in the case of Patrick, who should carry out his sentence in an alternative section aimed at the requalification of the individual and specific treatments.
An important request is that of the immediate appointment of the figure of the Guarantor of prisoners and to constitute a civil party in the trials of deaths in prisons in the Abruzzo region.
The death of Patrick Guarnieri represents the failure of the prison system and has opened a scenario of violation of human rights which already in 2017 the European Community condemned the Italian prison system because it is not in line with the European prison system and for the serious violations of rights humans.
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