Salerno, prisoner first injures himself and then tries to attack officers

“Last night in the Salerno prison, an inmate, after being treated in the prison infirmary for a cut on his leg, tried to attack the prison police officers, trying to damage the premises, but was immediately stopped.

Shortly after, another inmate suffered cuts on his face. When he was taken to the infirmary, he swallowed razor blades that he had hidden, forcing him to be transported in emergency to the city hospital.

It communicates it Orlando Scocca, FP CGIL Campania for the Penitentiary Police: “These events are the order of the day and it is precisely this that is now destabilizing the prison police officers throughout Campania.

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Having to accompany a prisoner to the hospital means putting the entire facility at risk because in order to guarantee the health of a prisoner who has voluntarily ingested razor blades, the margins of intervention must be restricted for all the other events, more or less banal, that continually occur in the prisons of Campania”.

Salvatore Tinto Regional Secretary FP CGIL: "The prison of Salerno is among the most crowded in the Region with over 500 inmates for less than 400 places foreseen as capacity and services. The stressful situation suffered by the workers of the Salerno penitentiary has been going on for quite some time now and we will take charge of representing these difficulties in other institutional offices".

Mirko Manna, National FP CGIL Penitentiary Police: "There is an urgent need for a remodeling of the working methods in prison. More Penitentiary Police personnel are needed. If the Minister is not able to represent this need to the Government, it is essential to rethink the work that workers in the prison security sector must do. It is not possible that a servant of the State should be threatened and subjected to sanctions and trials if the State itself does not put him in a position to work".

“Soon – concludes Manna – we will officially ask for a round table discussion with the Government that has never happened until now. From the Minister until now only proclamations, but no listening”.