Prisons, policemen in the square in Cagliari: "Reduced to the limit, we need more staff"

The Sappe Penitentiary Police Autonomous Syndicate has returned to the streets to demonstrate in Cagliari, in front of the former Buoncammino prison today the headquarters of the Dap, for the "serious problems" of the staff who work in the various Sardinian prisons.

"We are in the streets to denounce the absolute precarious situation that characterizes the prisons of Sardinia and those of the whole country, in which dozens and dozens of critical events occur every day in the absolute indifference of the regional and national leaders of the Penitentiary Administration and the Ministry of Justice ”, the words of the general secretary Donato Capece.

"Think that in Sardinia there are three directors in effective service and 11 prisons - he continues -. The penitentiary system, for adults and minors, is crumbling more and more every day. We have been saying this for some time, unheeded: the internal security of prisons was annihilated by nefarious measures such as dynamic surveillance and the open regime, by having removed the sentries of the prison surveillance police from the prison walls, by the lack of staff, by the lack of funding for anti-intrusion and anti-climb-over services " .

About two thousand people are currently detained in Sardinia. "The carnival is over: we ask the penitentiary administration to remove the mask - observes Luca Fais, regional secretary of Sappe for Sardinia - The prisons of the island are highlighted once again for episodes of violence: unfortunately, many inmates who assign us they have serious psychiatric problems, many others are dangerous and restricted in the High Security circuit and 41 bis, for very serious crimes including terrorism. There are no prison police officers, directors, commanders and civilian personnel in Sardinia. The prison police do their utmost to guarantee what is established by current legislation, but many times the units for a more active control are lacking: we are forced to suppress, every day in Sardinian prisons, numerous service posts because there is a lack of personnel and then this unacceptable violence occurs ".

(Unioneonline / vl)