“The procedure for the assignment of the renovation of the Castrovillari district house has finally been started.” The Undersecretary for Justice is news Andrea Delmastro and the senator Ernesto Rapaniwhich express satisfaction with the decision taken by the Ministry of Justice – Department of the prison administration. “We are talking about an long -awaited intervention – declares Rapani – which concerns the adaptation of the prison sections of the men’s right block and the isolation department. An important signal that confirms the government’s will to intervene on the penitentiary structures, improving its general conditions and attention to attention to Calabria “.
The project was validated and inserted among the priorities of the National Penitentiary Building Plan. The amount provided for the works is greater than 1 million and 600 thousand euros. «For years Italian prisons have been living a critical situation for years – continues Delmastro and Rapani – with old structures, inadequate environments, overcrowding and operational difficulties for penitentiary staff. Interventions like this represent a necessary step to return efficiency and humanity to places that are too often forgotten ». “It is our duty to guarantee security, dignity and functionality in penitentiary institutions – they conclude – and this initiative goes exactly in that direction. I will continue to follow the process and to solicit further actions for the improvement of the entire prison sector, starting right from the territories such as that of Castrovillari “