Benevento: tomorrow public meeting on the rights of prisoners, organized by the guarantor Sannino. Patrizia Sannino, Guarantor of people deprived of personal liberty of the Province of Benevento, communicates that, in agreement and in collaboration with the Associations sensitive to the issue of the rights of prisoners, she has promoted for Tuesday 18 June 2024 at 10.30 am at the “La Pace” Center ” in via Antonio Cifaldi of the Samnite capital, a public meeting on the living conditions in prisons and for the rehabilitation of the prison system.
The demonstration at the “Centro La Pace”, like those of previous months, takes place in the context of the initiatives promoted at a national level by the Conference of Guarantors of Prisoners’ Rights to raise public and political awareness of the tragic sequence of suicides within prisons. walls of penitentiaries (in total they exceeded 45 units in these first six months of 2024).
On this occasion too, the National Conference launched an Appeal with the title: “Suicides in prison: immediate, urgent and concrete responses”, the text of which is shown below:
«Three months have now passed since the appeal “Urgent interventions are needed for overcrowding and suicides in prisons”, in which the President of the Republic invited the political class of our country to urgently adopt immediate measures to ease the climate of tension that we breathe in Italian prisons, caused mainly by overcrowding, staff shortages and inefficiency of intramural healthcare.
With great concern, we note, once again, the substantial indifference of politics towards the worsening state of suffering of prisoners, towards the worsening of the living conditions of our prisons which, far from allowing that “realisation of the constitutional face of punishment “, they continue to betray the basic European and international constitutional principles on which the rule of law rests and to continually humiliate dignity.”
