The regional secretary of Osapp Campania, Vincenzo Palmieri, launches an appeal to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella: "Since the beginning of the year, there have been 32 suicides, all of them suffering from mental illnesses and drug addiction."
According to Palmieri: "It's time to act. Legislative changes are urgently needed to deflate prisons, not just in Campania. Around 70 inmates are now overflowing, compared to a tolerable capacity of 50, spread across 198 detention facilities across the peninsula. In Campania, 14 facilities house approximately 8 inmates, creating management problems and critical issues. The former should be assigned rehabilitation centers and REMS (recovery centers) to provide adequate care, given that the prison system in Campania is a complete failure.
Added to this are structural deficiencies, a lack of personnel in central functions, educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, etc.
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And yet: "Not to mention the constant daily attacks, carried out by a subset of troublemakers who disobey the rules and vent their anger for a variety of reasons, often to be transferred to another facility. Anything and everything now enters the facilities by air and by land. Drones flying over the facilities at night are not always intercepted, carrying drugs and cell phones, the latter being used not only to call relatives but also to conduct illicit activities outside the prison.
Thanks to the activity of the penitentiary police, every day they are found and seized. Without security, treatment is not guaranteed, it is an essential condition, prisoners risk leaving worse than they entered, becoming a danger to public order and society.
We, as Osapp, appeal to President Mattarella to restore dignity to the Corps of men, women, and individuals through policy. This policy should include different measures regarding the execution of sentences, ensuring, on the one hand, certainty of the sentence itself, and, on the other, differentiated pathways for those with unmanageable pathologies and for those who respect the rules and have repented of the crime committed. This policy should also provide more enforcement tools, including technological ones, to the prison police to ensure greater legality in systems for the protection of all.
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