Today, approximately 300 men from the Penitentiary Police, off duty and on leave, showed up in Rome before the Department of Penitentiary Administration to claim their rights and demonstrate the critical situation in which they operate.
A penitentiary system on the brink of bankruptcy is denounced by the general secretary of ASPPE-CONSIPE Claudio Marcangeli who highlights how in a few years there will be a further and physiological impoverishment of the staff, due to retirements.
All of this will worsen the already precarious working conditions of thousands of prison police officers who, day by day, find themselves guaranteeing an institutional mandate increasingly compromised by unacceptable workloads that undermine everyone's safety.
Today marked the end of the first stage of demonstrations that started in Sicily and crossed the entire south to then reach the DAP (Department of Penitentiary Administration) where a delegation of union leaders from the area met with the head of the Penitentiary Police personnel, Dr. Massimo Parisi, and the deputy head of the DAP, Dr. Lina Di Domenico, who were given a memorandum of the emergencies to be resolved for the protection of the well-being of the staff.
From the comparison between the Parties emerged the mutual intent to give an improvement to the organization of work and training of the Penitentiary Police personnel who find themselves competing with a criminality increasingly updated with new technologies.
For the union leaders of CON.SI.PE the time has come to make a change to the Italian penitentiary system and to get out of this stagnation that penalizes the treatment and re-education of inmates and at the same time creates serious and critical operational difficulties.
Timely intervention by the Government is urgently needed to bring the available strength of the Penitentiary Police Corps into line and to enhance the work of thousands of women and men called into question by countless critical events and disproportionate workloads.
Article published on 12 October 2023 - 21:08
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