“I visited the penitentiary institutes of Reggio Calabria, taking the invitation of the ‘Sardiello’ criminal chamber observatory. An intense and profoundly significant occasion, which allowed me to deepen, with further awareness, through the comparison with the staff and the detained people, the structural and staff critical issues that afflict the Calabrian penitentiary system, as well as the Italian one. of critical issues, I was able to appreciate the commitment and dedication with which every day the professional figures who guarantee the functioning and holding of the system “. This was stated by the MEP Giusi Princi, after visiting the penitentiary institutes of Reggio Calabria, in the Argechillà and San Pietro offices.
“The visit – continues the MEP – represented an important moment of listening and direct comparison with the penitentiary staff and with the prisoners. An opportunity to collect needs, proposals and testimonies. I thank the prisons of the ‘Sardiello’ criminal Chamber for the involvement in this visit: an invitation that I immediately accepted with responsibility because I believe it is essential to keep the institutional attention high on such a relevant theme. respectful represents an essential prerequisite for the construction of a more just society.
“Overcrowding and deficiencies of organic – highlights Giusi Princi – are among the most serious critical issues that afflict the entire penitentiary system, in Calabria, Italy, in Europe, as per the warning of the Court of Strasbourg. For this reason, the value of daily work carried out by operators who are acting in often emergency contexts becomes even more evident. Directors, Penitentiary Police, officials Legal-pedagogical, health and administrative personnel: a community made of women and men who, with commitment, responsibility and dedication, operate every day to make the prison a place of growth and change. Activated by the Asp of Reggio Calabria in all penitentiary institutions and already operational at the Argechillà and San Pietro offices. of organic.
“I address sincere thanks – says the MEP – to the director of the Rosario Tortorella Institute and to the deputy director Roberta Velletri and Marianna Stendardo for the reception and for daily efforts in guaranteeing the functionality of the system. My commitment – he adds – will be to make mine the many instances of improvement that have been represented, with full availability to support, even in the European seat, all those projects that can strengthen the paths of the paths of the paths of the paths of Re -education and social reintegration. The visit within the penitentiary institutions has highlighted the value of listening to the detained people. Reggio Calabria, Francesco Siclari, the president of the prisons Observatory, Giovanna Beatrice Araniti, the coordinator of the observers, Corrado Politi, the members of the board of the Criminal Chamber and the prisons Observatory.