A violent brawl involving approximately 40 inmates broke out late yesterday afternoon in the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison.
The Sappe penitentiary police union reports this through its website secretary for Campania Emilio Fattorello. "The inmates of the IV section of the Nile Ward - Fattorello reports - used blunt objects such as the legs of tables to clash. Several were injured and treated in the infirmary of the institute. The staff of the Penitentiary Police, reduced as always in staff, managed to keep the situation under control avoiding the worst and secure the Section by locking the violent inmates in their respective cells".
The Sappe reiterates “the need to assign non-problematic inmates to the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison and to send away inmates who have committed violent acts, to avoid ongoing critical issues in a complex penitentiary with weak balances, as is now known to all those involved, and difficult to manage such as the one in question”. Fattorello expresses “his satisfaction to all his colleagues who work in Santa Maria amidst a thousand difficulties”.
The Sappe also recalls the many attacks against agents that occurred in the Sammaritan prison, and also in other Italian prisons. For the general secretary Donato Capece “the situation in Italian prisons, for adults and minors, is increasingly alarming, due to the continuous repetition of serious critical and violent episodes that increasingly involve the men and women belonging to the Penitentiary Police Corps.
Women and men who serve in the detention sections without any useful tool to guarantee their physical safety from the continuous aggressions of the most violent inmates. The taser could be the useful tool par excellence but the heads of the Ministry of Justice and the Dap only talk and the Penitentiary Police continues to remain without it”.
Article published on 27 July 2022 - 14:22
