The prison police of the Rossano department, following an investigative activity, found and seized five cell phones, available to a prisoner.
Giovanni Battista Durante, General Secretary General of Sappe, and Francesco Ciccone, regional secretary, according to whom “is plausible, that the phones could serve to grant their use or onerous assignment to other imprisonment, make it known. It is important to understand these dynamics, but it is equally important – they say – the prevention work that the prison police carry out with few means and resources. For more effective prevention – continues the Sappe – it would be appropriate to shield the institutes, in order to make the use of phones ineffective. Only in this way could the illegal entry of cell phones into prison could be definitively stopped; Which, however, constitutes a crime. A crime whose introduction into the criminal code, which took place in 2020, art 391 ter, however, did not have the desired deterrent effect ».