Since the beginning of the year, 13 inmates have committed suicide in prisons. prisons Italian. The latest case was discovered lifeless on Monday morning in the prison of Imperia. All the victims lost their lives by hanging, except for a 65-year-old man detained in Rieti, who died due to the consequences of a hunger strike.
The Giuseppe Salvia prison in Naples Poggioreale leads the list of prisons that have recorded the highest number of suicides a few days after the end of the first month of the year, with three inmates who have taken their own lives, including Andrea Napolitano, sentenced to life imprisonment for the femicide of his partner, Ylenia Lombardo, which occurred in 2021.
Other prisons where deaths have occurred include Ancona Monteacuto, Padua, Rieti, Cuneo, Agrigento, Verona, Terano and Rossano Calabro, in the province of Cosenza.
The suicide of a 23-year-old in the Ancona Montacuto prison on January 5, coming from the Fermo penal institute, occurred while he was in solitary confinement. The young man's mother, Matteo Concetti, reported the death to the Carabinieri, and the autopsy confirmed death by 'violent mechanical asphyxia'. The young man was undergoing pharmacological therapy for mental disorders.
The latest suicide recorded in Imperia involves a 66-year-old Italian, originally from Villalba but resident in Liguria, awaiting the first trial for the attempted femicide of his wife. Gennarino De Fazio, general secretary of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police, declared that the aid of the Penitentiary Police was useless and underlined the worrying increase in cases of self-suppression, highlighting that, in the current month, the number of suicides has almost doubled compared to the same period of the previous year.
Article published on 29 January 2024 - 20:45
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