Caserta. Cancer patient remains in prison: the appeal of the Guarantor of prisoners of Campania, Samuele Ciambriello.
Ciambriello went to the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison, where he met, in the reception and infirmary department, several inmates with oncological diseases undergoing chemotherapy, including Giovanni C..
The man, Ciambriello reported, was discharged from the Cardarelli hospital in Naples on July 16 after a month of hospitalization, with the wording “the patient's prognosis is poor and death can occur at any time due to the onset of unforeseeable complications”.
Several times, even from the hospital in Sessa Aurunca, the man "was sent back because he was unable to manage his condition", underlines the guarantor.
On July 19, the Health Directorate of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison forwarded a further declaration to the Court of Assizes of Appeal (IV section). incompatibility, which has not yet been resolved. “Even today,” Ciambriello said, “I wonder why he was not granted house arrest at his sister’s home. It is one of the few cases in Campania in which the incompatibility with the prison system has been declared as such by several public institutions. The right to health is incompatible with remaining in prison, for Giovanni C. first and foremost and for all those who are in precarious physical conditions. There is a need for reception facilities, also and above all for prisoners who have no family support. In short, punishment cannot be configured as revenge. Those who are incompatible with prison must leave it, but not dead”.
The Guarantor then continued his visit by listening to a delegation of prisoners from the Senna ward (High Security), and met the heads and 20 inmates of the psychiatric unit in the Nile ward.
Article published on 14 September 2021 - 17:38
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