Campania Prisoners' Guarantor: 'Addressing the Covid Problem in Prisons'

Campania Prisoners' Guarantor: 'Addressing the Covid Problem in Prisons'

“In Campania, yesterday, 68 infected people were registered among prisoners: 1 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere and 64 in Secondigliano plus 3 in hospital. 53 infected people among penitentiary police officers and health personnel”.

These are the data from the Campania guarantor of prisoners, Samuele Ciambriello. "If there are already tens of thousands of infected people in prisons throughout Italy, and a thousand in Campania alone, the health, physical, and psychological consequences of this contagion must be addressed", adds Ciambriello. As for Vaccines, the guarantor of prisoners states that "there is a risk that prisoners become a category of 'discarded'".

"It is right - as is already being done, to proceed with the vaccination of health workers in prisons - continues Ciambriello - as well as prison police officers and prison workers. I wonder, however, given the outbreaks of contagion throughout Italy, when chronically ill prisoners over the age of 60, who are in the SAI (Intensified Assistance Services) of prisons, will also receive this possibility,