"The spread of Covid-19 does not stop in prisons and, indeed, the number of inmates testing positive for the virus continues to increase dramatically."
Commenting on the data released in the evening by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and relating to the trend of Coronavirus infections in prisons is Gennarino De Fazio, general secretary of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police, which remembers ”among the prisoners there were many outbreaks of very large proportions, such as in Turin (173), Naples Secondigliano (144), Florence Sollicciano (128), Naples Poggioreale (126), Busto Arsizio (120), Prato (110) and Pavia (103), to name only those where the ceiling of one hundred was broken through.
The trend of the pandemic among operators, however, seems substantially stable, with 1.646 currently positive. This data also, albeit empirically, seems to confirm the tendency of the virus, in this phase, to run more among inmates than in the rest of the population”.
"Although our requests have so far gone mostly unheard and, perhaps, in these hours the attention of politics is catalyzed by the imminent election of the President of the Republic, which, moreover, by a twist of fate, could directly involve the main figures who should deal particularly with prison problems such as the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, and the Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia".
“We cannot give up, not even today – concludes the secretary of Uilpa Pp – to make yet another appeal to everyone, including them, to take action by providing for both the obligation and the real and not just phantom provision of Ffp2 masks for operators, inmates and anyone who enters prisons for any reason, and the updating of the health safety protocol, drawn up when the first sequence of the virus isolated in Wuhan was being dealt with and which is now inadequate”.
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