“Two critical events occurred in the Catanzaro prison, a few hours later. Last night An agent was attacked by a prisoner and reported the fracture of a finger of the hand. This night, however, some agents, to contain a prisoner with psychiatric problems, had to resort to medical care and some of them was also referred to twenty days of prognosis ».
This is what the Sappe prison police union denounces. “The problem of prisoners with psychiatric discomfort – say Giovanni Battista Durante, adding general secretary of Sappe and Francesco Ciccone, regional secretary – is increasingly present in institutes, where they are unseemable by the prison police staff, who is prepared to do anything else. The situation is increasingly difficult, because prison is not equipped to manage these people. Psychiatrist specialists are often missing, therefore the sick cannot be treated and followed adequately, as would require their pathology, and create safety problems for them and for the operators, prison police in the first place. The Constitutional Court, two years ago, also – concluded – intervened with a sentence and invited Parliament to legislate, in order to change the closing law of judicial psychiatric hospitals “.