The “phase 1” of the epidemiological emergency caused by the coronavirus has ended and there are no infected people in the Naples Poggioreale prison. This is underlined in a note by Luigi Castaldo, vice secretary of Osapp in Campania who praises the effective preventions adopted by the director of the prison, Carlo Berdini and the competent medical director Vincenzo Irollo, with the support of the “safety at work” team.

“Protocol achieved and arranged thanks to a conscientious and synergic team effort implemented by the prison director Dr. Berdini Carlo and the competent medical director Dr. Irollo Vincenzo, with the support of the “workplace safety” team.
Thanks to these two senior executives, it was possible to avoid the worst in the Neapolitan penitentiary, among the largest and most crowded in Europe, which hosts around 3.000 people per day (including inmates, civilian staff and Penitentiary Police staff). Tensile structure, thermoscanners, PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), sanitizing gel dispensers in all departments, sanitization of the various environments and overnight rooms for quarantine and isolation of suspected cases, as well as careful control of the DPCM that followed, have determined today's results", explains Castaldo. And then he adds: "The praise goes mainly to the heroes on the front line and that is, to all the healthcare personnel from doctors, nurses to OSS and to all the Penitentiary Police staff masterfully managed by the deputy director Dr. Diglio Gaetano".

For Castaldo, in many Campanian institutes there is a common denominator represented by the strong lack of staff and the lack of instrumental resources, all of which is due to scarce and incorrect investments by the Government in this sense, probably due to shortcomings, certainly economic.
“The chronic lack of staff - Castaldo always says - and the scarce instrumental resources are determined by current and planned retirements and in particular by the increase in recent years of benefits for prisoners, benefits that are shared from a humanitarian perspective, but which determine greater workloads and therefore greater recourse to compulsory overtime. Overtime also used in this troubled historical period to quell the various revolts and deal with the many critical events.
Therefore, for the Penitentiary Police personnel to fight the coronavirus while remaining on the front lines with limited resources, it is a demonstration of a great sense of responsibility, a high sense of duty, a strong spirit of self-denial that turns into a great psychophysical sacrifice that deserves the right and due attention and attestations of recognition by a respectable policy. We cannot pretend nothing is happening and pass off as normal what, in full emergency, the Penitentiary Police Corps had to face.
Politics in general, but this Government in particular, cannot fail to take into account how much psychophysical energy has been exploited, and how every single prison policeman has been put to the test. Justice is the constant and perpetual will to recognize each person's right".

Article published on May 3, 2020 - 14:12 pm