A 36-year-old Italian prisoner escaped in the early afternoon of Saturday 22 June from the high security department of the Livorno prison. This is what the unions Uilpa Penitentiary Police and Spp have announced. The inmate, of Campania origin, explains 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. The searches began immediately by the Penitentiary Police and other law enforcement agencies, but to date to no avail”.
«A new ‘announced’ escape – states Aldo Di Giacomo, general 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 shortage of staff) and therefore particularly dangerous”. «We no longer know how to say it – comments Gennarino De Fazio, general secretary of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police -. What else needs to happen for the Government to become fully and truly aware of the penitentiary emergency in progress, certainly unprecedented in at least the last 30 years, and a prison decree is issued 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.”
