“You go in and there's a single corridor and all four cells face that corridor. Is small. So if you enter that corridor, inevitably if they look out into the cell, you see them and talk to all four of them».

This is the description of the compound that houses the 41 bis inmates ( WHO I AM ) in the Sassari prison of Bancali given by Debora Serracchiani , Pd group leader in the Chamber who, with three other dem colleagues,visited the Sardinian penitentiary in mid-January to assess the conditions of Alfredo Cospito , the anarchist on hunger strike for over 100 days (and who has now been transferred to the Milanese and Opera prison), at the center of the bitter political controversies of these days.

Cospito, recalls Serracchiani with regard to the controversy over the visit triggered by an intervention by Fdi deputy Giovanni Donzelli, «told us: "Don't just talk to me, but also to the other inmates" and we answered him: "Look, that we would have done it too”».

It is useless, Serracchiani continues, «to say “Cospito ordered you to speak to the other prisoners”: it is stupid. No one has ordered us anything.'

Again, Serracchiani continues, "We saw the infirmaries where all the prisoners are treated and we also spoke to the doctor who treats the prisoners under the 41 bis in particular". After that, adds Serracchiani, «we went to the 41 bis section, made up of compounds of 4 cells. In one of these four-cell sectors there are four prisoners, one of these prisoners was Cospito». The delegation also included Andrea Orlando, Walter Verini and the Sardinian deputy Silvio Lai.

Silvio Lai's story in Enrico Fresu's article in L'Unione Sarda on newsstands

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