“Modestino Forte, 57 years previously detained in Avellino and then transferred to Catanzaro, not respecting the right to territoriality of the sentence, he died of stage four lung cancer.
The Court doctor considers him compatible with the prison regime. Only on Friday, January 12, he is granted hospital arrest. The prisoner was already in a pharmacological coma, three days before they had rejected house arrest.
The right to health and life always prevails. Prison is a space outside the world, a time outside the world, a pathogenic institution. An ordeal. I ask for justice and truth. We cannot continue, in general indifference, to die in prison and of prison.”
Thus the Campania guarantor of persons deprived of personal liberty Samuele Ciambriello on the death of the citizen of Avellino in the Catanzaro prison.
In short
Modestino Forte, 57, first detained in Avellino and then transferred to Catanzaro, died of lung cancer in the fourth year of life, violating the right to territorial punishment.
- The court doctor considers him compatible with the prison regime.
- Only on Friday, January 12, was he granted hospital detention.
- The prisoner was already in a medically induced coma; three days earlier they had rejected house arrest.
Key questions
What is the main point of the news?
Modestino Forte, 57, first detained in Avellino and then transferred to Catanzaro, died of cancer due to a violation of the right to territorial punishment.
Why is this news relevant?
The court doctor considers him compatible with the prison regime.
Which detail helps us understand the case better?
Only on Friday, January 12, was he granted hospital detention.






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