"Three years ago, the Ministry of Infrastructure allocated €15 million to Campania to renovate five obsolete buildings at the Poggioreale prison. The money was given to the Regional Public Works Department, which, in agreement with the Superintendency, was supposed to carry out the work. In three years, only two visits were made to verify the state of the buildings, and the work never began. It's a scandal, an outrage." This accusation was made by Samuele Ciambriello, ombudsman for prisoners in Campania, in the aftermath of the escape of thirty-two-year-old Robert Lisowski. Speaking on Radio Crc, Ciambriello discussed the situation at the "Giuseppe Salvia" prison, known as Poggioreale prison, where "overcrowding has become an accessory punishment. You enter prison innocently or guilty, and find yourself in a cell with 5 or 3 people, without showers or bidets, sometimes without sinks, and with a mattress on the floor because there's no room for an extra bed. A person who makes a mistake loses the right to freedom but not to dignity, and this also applies to family members who wait four or five hours for a one-hour meeting." In Poggioreale, Ciambriello noted, "last year there were four suicides, and 10 attempted suicides were recorded in Campania's prisons. If there wasn't a massacre," he concluded, "we have the penitentiary police officers to thank."
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