Livorno, 22 June 2024 – Un detained 36 year old Italian escaped in the early afternoon from high security department of the prison of Livorno. This is what the unions Uilpa Penitentiary Police and Spp have announced. The recluse, originally from Pozzuoliexplains Uilpa, “from what we learn, while he was out for a walk, he would have climbed over a first wall facilitated from the outside. Due to lack of staff, it seems that neither the promenades nor the surrounding wall were permanently manned. Searches were started immediately by the Penitentiary Police and other law enforcement agencies, but so far without success.”
“A new escape ‘announced’ – he states Aldo Di Giacomogeneral secretary of the SPP -: a prisoner originally from Pozzuoli from the high security section has escaped from the Livorno prison (there are around a hundred of them out of a total of 300 prisoners and a high level of overcrowding and at the same time staff shortages) and therefore particularly dangerous.”
“We don’t know how to say it anymore – he then comments Gennarino De Fazio, general secretary of Uilpa Penitentiary Police -. What else needs to happen for the Government to become fully and truly aware of the ongoing penitentiary emergency, certainly unprecedented in at least the last 30 years, and pass a prison decree to make them safe? 18 thousand units missing from the Penitentiary Police, 14 thousand more prisoners than available places, suicides, murders, fights, assaults, rapes, devastation, escapes and much more. Prisons today cannot even aim to pursue any of the objectives assigned to them by the constitution and the laws.”
