AGI – “Today, in Rome, anticipating tomorrow’s meeting of the Conference of Territorial Guarantors and a similar initiative of the Criminal Chamber of Rome, we read the names of the deaths in prison and prison in 2024, including those of four policemen who have taken their lives. Urgent answers are needed, the President of the Republic said last month, and we are with him today”. Thus the Guarantor of people subjected to measures restrictive of personal freedom, Stefano Anastasia, at the end of the demonstration which took place today in Rome in front of the Regina Coeli prison.
“Thirty suicides in three months and more than 61 thousand prisoners – continues Anastasia – in Lazio we have an overcrowding of 142%, 6731 prisoners for 4742 places: 2000 in excess. In Regina Coeli, today, there were 1150 prisoners for 628 places, practically double. The promotion of work for prisoners which was discussed yesterday at the CNEL is fine, but if the numbers do not change, work will be a reward for a few”.
In addition to the Guarantor Anastasia, the Guarantor of Roma Capitale, Valentina Calderone, Bruno Mellano, Guarantor of the Piedmont Region and Coordinator of the regional Guarantors, the Guarantor of the Municipality of Udine, Franco Corleone, Don Lucio Boldrin, chaplain of Rebibbia, participated in the reading of the names. new complex and regional coordinator of the chaplains, Denise Amerini and Giovanni Alfonsi of the CGIL, the regional coordinator of the Uil Penitentiary Police, Davide Riggi, and the president of the Criminal Chamber of Rome, Gaetano Scalise. The latter announced a similar demonstration of lawyers in robes, summoned for tomorrow, again in front of Regina Coeli.
The Roman initiative was supported by: With good reason; Antigone Lazio; In Rome together; Criminal Chamber of Rome; CGIL Nazionale, CGIL Rome and Lazio; Cittadinanzattiva; Community of Sant’Egidio; Regional coordination of penitentiary chaplains; Pid Onlus; Society of Reason; Uil penitentiary; Vic Caritas.
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