Penitentiary Police officers found in an internal courtyard of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison four blocks of hashish for a weight of 200 and a smartphone tied to a fishing line; the objects were on the ground adjacent to the “Volturno” Department near the sports field.
To give the news Orlando Scocca, Fp Cgil Campania for the Penitentiary Police. “The timely discovery was possible thanks to the hearing and sight by a Select Agent on duty, of a drone that was in the perpendicular where the substance and the telephone were later found”, he explains.
Mirko Manna, of the national secretariat Fp Cgil Penitentiary Police: "we do not have the exact count of phones discovered in Italian prisons because the Dap simply refuses to provide the data to trade unions and public opinion. The omission would also make sense if it were attributable to maintaining some confidentiality, useful for eradicating the use of phones in prisons.
However, after years in which we hear daily about confiscations of phones in prisons, it is now clear that the administration is simply incapable of putting a systemic barrier to the introduction of cell phones in prisons through the use of technological equipment that the Penitentiary Police Corps has been requesting for years."
“The use of cell phones in prison – the trade unionist continues – it is not, as some persist in belittling, a banal means of staying in contact with loved ones, but it is both a tool for the most dangerous prisoners to control and oppress the weakest, and a dangerous tool for giving orders or managing illegal trafficking outside, continuing to maintain one's criminal status despite detention".
At the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere it is the umpteenth seizure of drugs and cell phones; a phenomenon constantly monitored by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, so much so that the Prosecutor, Pier Paolo Bruni that the added, Carmine Renzulli They have raised the alarm that the prison structure is becoming a real drug dealing center
Article published on 19 August 2023 - 17:44
