Prisons increasingly crowded: prisoners increased by 30% in one year, less than half are Sardinian
There are 2,289 people deprived of personal freedom on the Island: 585 are foreigners, a thousand Sardinians. Critical situation in Uta and Bancali
(Archive)
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The island's prisons are increasingly overcrowded, and less than half of the inmates are Sardinian .
Socialismo Diritti Riforme reports this, citing data released by the Statistics Office of the Ministry of Justice.
In one year there are 30 percent more people behind bars. And the numbers of the large prisons are especially worrying. In Uta on December 31, 2023 there were 601 people locked up for 561 places, in one year they became 768 , the number of operators unchanged. In Bancali on December 31, 2023 instead there were 472 inmates for 454 places, at the end of 2024 they became 536 .
Maria Grazia Caligaris, president of the association, emphasizes that in two institutes, "both with a non-titular acting director", 56.9% of the inmates of the Island are incarcerated. The total number amounts to 2,289, 49 women and only a thousand are Sardinians, not even half.
The number of foreigners in prison is growing: there are 585, more than a quarter of the total (25.5% ). There are 187 in Uta, there were 112 a year ago, and 176 in Bancali, where at the end of 2023 there were 132.
"Overcrowding," explains Calligaris, "has led to 4 or even 5 people in a cell for two, with bunk beds and the impossibility of all standing at the same time. A situation that favors moments of mutual intolerance and difficulty in living together."
The situation is also "delicate" in Tempio-Nuchis (162 prisoners for 170 places) and Lanusei (33 prisoners for 33 places) . In Badu 'e Carros, however, "the situation is critical for the medium security prisoners also because a section that is not yet available for renovations continues to be unusable".
(Unioneonline/L)
