Too much crowding in the Uta prison, and the inmates are left without pillows and blankets. This is reported by Irene Testa, guarantor of the inmates in Sardinia.

"762 inmates against a capacity of 560. Entire sections with 4 beds in cells for two," he explains, " There aren't even enough pillows, the structure is so crowded. The officers do somersaults to get pillows and blankets. In the section where the inmates are, most of whom are psychiatric patients, they are not only kept in smooth cells without furniture with only a camp bed but not even enough blankets. They have one available but it's very cold. Now it's clear that if the radiators still can't be turned on , you can't let someone serving a sentence freeze to death, it's not humane and it's in no way acceptable ."

"It should also be remembered - he continues - that prisoners pay for food and accommodation in prison but in this way not even animals are allowed to live, let alone human beings . Some sections are damp and cold and in this context prisoners and officers are forced to live and are forced to work grueling shifts. Two officers in each section for more than 150 prisoners per floor. The Department of Penitentiary Administration and Minister Nordio who mistook Sardinia for a Cayenne where more than half of the prisoners do not come from the Island, instead of continuing to crowd the institutions should use the half-empty penal colonies".

(Online Union)

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