Murder inside the Velletri prison, at the height of a fight between inmates. “Yesterday, apparently at the height of a fight between two inmates, one killed the other shortly before the immediate intervention of the police.
The reasons for this crazy act are not known, but the situation is alarming. At the moment, all we know is that the two shared the same cell, that the murderer had psychiatric problems and in the recent past had also attacked a prison police officer”.
He reports it Maurice Somma, national secretary for Lazio of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police Know, the first and most representative of the Category. For Donato Capece, Secretary General of SAPPE, it is necessary to completely rethink the penitentiary issue.
“What happened in the Velletri prison must necessarily make us reflect in order to identify short-term solutions and avoid the Penitentiary Police being the continuous target of situations of serious stress and great discomfort during the performance of their service.
Mental distress, after the closure of judicial psychiatric hospitals, has been poured into prisons, where there are no people trained to manage these problems, and there is a lack of adequate structures and operational protocols.
The penitentiary police – concludes Capese – can no longer manage this situation and in the next few days will evaluate whether to declare a state of agitation. The effect that the presence of psychiatric subjects produces is the cause of a series of critical events that undermine the security of the institute as well as the safety of the penitentiary police officer”.
Article published on 21 June 2023 - 07:13
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