We request a meeting with Minister Nordio immediately to show him a snapshot of the Italian prison system, different from the idea behind the decree law of July 4th.
On that occasion, we could discuss with him the proposal for a deflationary measure that could affect the eight thousand out of 61 thousand inmates serving sentences of less than a year.
Finally, we believe it is essential to involve the Regions in hiring new professionals dedicated to penitentiary institutions, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, and cultural mediators, while the decree only focuses on hiring new penitentiary police units.
This was stated by Samuele Ciambriello, spokesperson for the National Conference of Territorial Guarantors of Persons Deprived of Their Liberty and Guarantor of Campania, at the end of the press conference held today in the Caduti di Nassyria Hall of the Senate.
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The meeting took place following a meeting of the Coordination of Regional Guarantors, which took place at the Conference headquarters on Via Pietro Cossa.
Speaking at the press conference were Veronica Valenti, Guarantor of the Municipality of Parma, Bruno Mellano, Guarantor of Piedmont, Valentina Calderone, Guarantor of Rome Capitale, Doriano Saracino, Guarantor of Liguria, and Stefano Anastasia, Guarantor of Lazio. In the prison emergency, the Guarantors reiterated, there is a need for measures to reduce overcrowding.
On the merits of the decree, the Many They highlighted that: "the increase in staffing envisaged by Legislative Decree 92 concerns only the Penitentiary Police; the measure regarding residential facilities for prisoners is not immediately applicable and in any case concerns a modest number of places; the changes to the early release system only apparently represent a simplification."
Present at the press conference were the vice president of the justice commission, senator Ilaria Cucchi, and senators Cecilia D'Elia and Filippo Sensi.
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