Thanks to the Cassa delle ammende project, since October of last year, 32 homeless prisoners (26 men and 6 women) in Campania have been able to access alternative measures to prison thanks to the hospitality provided by several volunteer associations.
This is what emerged from the meeting between the Regional Guarantor of prisoners Samuele Ciambriello and the associations that won the Cassa delle ammende project regarding the reception of homeless prisoners; a meeting during which the critical issues encountered and the good practices still to be followed were taken stock.
The organizations “Cooperativa Less” (Naples), “Migranti senza frontiere Onlus” (Salerno), “Cooperativa San Paolo” (Salerno), “Croce Rossa Italiana” (Comitato Napoli Nord – Casoria), “Cooperativa L'uomo ed il legno” (Melito di Napoli), “Cooperativa Il Melograno” (Benevento), “Associazione Generazione Libera” (Caserta), “Associazione di promozione sociale Tarita” (Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino), have welcomed a total of 2020 prisoners since October 32.
“I am grateful to the cooperatives and associations that have done a commendable job welcoming the differently free with many difficulties: the educational areas, at times, have not shown full collaboration in the participation of the inmates in these shelters. In many cases they were also inmates with health and mental problems. The places and funding for the housing units were for a total of 65 inmates, but to my great surprise they came from the least requested prisons, even though there were also places reserved for inmates who were mothers with children”, said the Regional Guarantor of prisoners Samuele Ciambriello.
"This transitional period of reception and inclusion was not only experienced by immigrant prisoners, often irregular, but also by Italians who in prison did not receive visits from their relatives or who had been removed from the residential nucleus. I hope that Cassa ammendand – he concluded – may reserve further funding for this type of project, because the homeless prisoner, once he has reached the end of his sentence, and therefore out of prison, if not followed properly, risks entering the circle of crime or becomes a repeat offender".
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