CIVITAVECCHIA – “Unfortunately yesterday was a very critical day in the prisons of Lazio, not only in Regina Coeli, but since we learned yesterday in the prison of Frosinone – an Italian prisoner, 21 years old, subjected to compulsory medical treatment several times, committed suicide by inhaling gas.
For the Fns Cisl Lazio, these prisoners must not be in prison but in suitable hospital facilities, treated certainly not supervised on sight by the Penitentiary Police, who are not responsible for this task but other structures and professionals – and this is where politics and the ASL are absent, that is, they pretend nothing happened – a lot still needs to be done since the OPGs were closed – as if the problem didn’t exist, passing the problem on to the Penitentiary Police.
Critical situation, also, in the NC CC Civitavecchia where yesterday morning around 10.30 4 officers were attacked, as well as an inmate by another inmate armed with an artificial knife.
Currently, regional overcrowding is increasing compared to the previous month and now stands at 1,498 prisoners considering that no. There are 6,779 prisoners imprisoned in the 14 institutes in Lazio, compared to a regulatory capacity of prisoners of no. 5,281.
Also yesterday at the IPM “Casal del Marmo” yet another big brawl between North African prisoners
Overcrowding is also recorded in the juvenile circuit IPM Rome there 62 minors and it must be remembered that in juvenile prisons there are no differentiated circuits and this makes the work very onerous, where prisoners with psychopathologies, addiction problems and other pathologies and different ethnic groups in relatively narrow spaces raises the level of tension. The few remaining police officers are forced to work grueling shifts without turnover or assignment of new units.
What is expected is a very difficult summer season, because the overcrowding of prisoners is increasing day by day and the shortages in the supply of Penitentiary Police Personnel
they are reaching levels that have hardly been recorded. And it is precisely in the Lazio region that we see an extreme situation with shortages of 930 missing in the region’s penitentiaries, i.e. almost 20% of the national figure.
Currently the shortage of Penitentiary Police personnel in the Lazio Region is around 930 units divided as follows: CC CASSINO – 55; CR CIVITAVECCHIA – 15; CC NC CIVITAVECCHIA -54; CC FROSINONE – 46; CC LATINA -12 ; CR PALIANO -10; CC NC RIETI -59; CR REBIBBIA – 62; NC CC REBIBBIA – 183; 3rd CC REBIBBIA -20; CCF REBIBBIA – 45; CC REGINA COELI – 188; CC VELLETRI – 89; CC VITERBO – 92.
Further interventions are needed by the Government, because those already put in place since last year with peaks of new hires – finally – never seen before in these numbers, are insufficient to manage what is now a serious emergency”
Fns Cisl Lazio
