“Yet another serious episode of aggression by an inmate towards the Penitentiary Police personnel of Santa Maria Capua Vetere. This time the victim was an Inspector, violently hit with several punches to the face”. This was reported by Si.NAPPe, the autonomous national union of penitentiary police.
“Yesterday, in fact, in the Nilo detention unit, a prisoner held in the Mental Health Unit of the Samaritano facility, for trivial reasons, attacked with unheard-of violence the inspector of the detention unit. The policeman, who was hit in the head, required hospital medical care with a prognosis of 7 days.”
The Deputy Secretary General of Si.NAPPe, Louis Vargas and the Regional Secretary, Pasquale Gallo, express their closeness and solidarity to the Sammarinese prison police officers, especially in this particular historical moment, characterized by a worrying lack of personnel: "once again we find ourselves faced with a critical event that could have had much more serious consequences.
It is inconceivable that prisoners with psychiatric pathologies are still confined in penitentiary institutions that are neither specialized nor equipped with the healthcare professionals necessary to manage such subjects. Our heartfelt appeal should reach the administrative leaders and the executive, so that they can quickly increase the increasingly scarce staff and resources.
By now, assaults are the order of the day and often the prisoners responsible are not even transferred to other locations. In fact, the prisoner responsible for the assault is still confined in that section.
We ask for exemplary sanctions against violent and troublemaking prisoners and immediate transfer precisely so that the sense of impunity that is seriously compromising order and security within penitentiary institutions is not fueled. This is no longer the time for proclamations. We must act quickly with concrete and decisive interventions. "
“These are the results of the denigrating media wave against the Penitentiary Police that, in an instant, has turned reality upside down. Prison is not only re-education, but above all security and certainty of punishment. Security is the fundamental prerequisite for ensuring the constitutional dictate.
Unfortunately, the Penitentiary Police force, responsible for ensuring order and security in prisons, has been gradually weakened and debased in its institutional role, a regular target of one-way media attention. Penitentiary police officers are increasingly disoriented and abandoned by a policy that seems to be disinterested in prisons, which, at this rate, will be handed over to criminals.”
Article published on 12 April 2023 - 09:43
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