A prisoner in the Palmi prison in the media security circuit subjected to art. 14 bis, he turned and squeezed his hands on the neck of a penitentiary police assistant “trying to strangle him for futile reasons and only the immediate intervention of a adequate number of staff prevented the situation from degenerating”. The provincial secretary of Osapp, the autonomous trade union organization of the prison police, Marco D’Agostino, gives news.
“Discounted to say – he says – how much this phenomenon in continuous growth is helped by the chronic absence of staff who see the men and women of the penitentiary police increasingly victims of the attackers and the system that is now collapse”.
“The umpteenth attack on the Penitentiary Police staff in Palmi – says Pasquale Montesano, general secretary Osapp – highlights how the overall situation is affected by the serious general overcrowding and the extraordinary shortage of prison police officers, estimated a deficiency of 100 united. Moreover, at national level, 16 thousand are prisoners beyond the capacity, while they amounted to over 17 thousand missing units to the prison police, which undergoes unsustainable workloads and is subjected to massacred shifts with the compression of the most elementary rights, including constitutional rank, in the substantial indifference of the institutions. The Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio and the Meloni government have a duty to stop the carnage in progress, as they have the obligation of law, political and moral to guarantee acceptable and dignified working conditions for women and men of the prison police, who are now exhausted in the forces and mortified in morale “.