Pisa Prison: Inmate Repeated Offender Sends Officer to Hospital
“It is simply incredible and unacceptable: the State can no longer passively witness the degradation and violence of a fringe of prisoners who think and believe they can do whatever they want in detention.”
The accusation by Donato Capece, the general secretary of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police, for the violence that took place yesterday in the Pisa prison is without appeal.
Same prisoner, same violence
Francesco Oliviero, secretary for Tuscany of Sappe, informs that
“in the Women’s Ward of the Pisa prison, yet another attack against Penitentiary Police personnel has taken place.
Twenty days after the last attack, the same Italian prisoner was once again the protagonist, violently attacking the officer, who had to seek treatment at the hospital in Pisa”.
No action by the prison administration
“Leaving the Penitentiary Police staff shocked – denounces the trade unionist – it is once again the delay in measures by the Penitentiary Administration.
Prisoners who are the protagonists of such events, according to the current rules, should be transferred immediately.
We regret to report once again that the Pisan institute lacks automation systems, the structure is dilapidated and requires major interventions to be started as soon as possible.
Finally, there is another worrying fact: overcrowding.”
A complete change of direction is needed
“A very serious attack has been committed against the State and against those who represent it in prison,” Capece continued.
“We need a complete change of direction in the management of regional prisons and the nation: we are at the mercy of these troublemakers, convinced that they are in a hotel where they can do what they do not want and not in a prison! We also appeal to the regional and local political authorities: in prison there are not only prisoners, but humble servants of the State who currently feel abandoned by the institutions work there”.
Countermeasures are urgently needed to prevent violent acts
Sappe expresses its closeness to the policewoman injured in Pisa and to all the colleagues of Don Bosco:
“But we are really at rock bottom: the prisoners remain unpunished for their violent conduct and do what they feel like doing, without fearing any consequences.
Countermeasures are urgently needed to prevent violent acts against police officers”concludes the national leader of SAPPe.
“The comatose state of penitentiaries does not favor the treatment of other users who respect the rules, nor even safety”.
Source toscanaindiretta.it
