Visit of the Attorney General of Perugia, Sergio Sottani, to the Terni prison “to verify the safety conditions in which magistrates work during hearings inside the prison”. The visit is part of the supervisory and control powers of the Attorney General and “follows the serious episode that occurred in recent days inside the Terni institute in which a judge, victim, during an interrogation, of an attempted assault by an Italian prisoner inside the same prison”. “The immediate intervention of the penitentiary police personnel averted the worst consequences that could have arisen from the violent attack carried out by the prisoner with the handle of a plastic fork, sharpened and hidden between the fingers of his hand” explains the Attorney General’s Office. The investigations into the episode are under the jurisdiction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Florence, activated following a report from the Terni Prosecutor’s Office.
New Agents We learn from government sources that 42 new penitentiary police officers are arriving for Umbria’s prisons. 20 will be assigned to the one in Perugia, 18 in Spoleto, three in Terni and one in Orvieto.
