The hunt is on for the prisoner, originally from Puglia, who escaped late yesterday evening from the Avellino prison.
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The news of the escape was released by the Uspp and Spp unions of the penitentiary police who point the finger at the inertia of those who manage the prisons in Campania. By now the Campania penitentiary system is leaking from all sides.
“Two escapes in a few days, plus a series of critical events”, declared the president Moretti and the secretary Auricchio of the Uspp for whom “in this general chaos the ones who pay the price are the prison police officers left in a deafening silence, without adequate countermeasures”.
“We immediately invite both the heads of the department and the political one to verify the work of the Campania superintendent – the two unionists conclude – and we also ask to make the work of the penitentiary police officers who serve in the Campania prisons safe”.
“There is no peace for the penitentiary institutions of Campania and what is happening is not a coincidence”, comments Tiziana Guacci, regional secretary of Sappe in Campania, “but the result of specific responsibilities and the total failure of the management of the Campanian Superintendence, which has been going on for too long now”.
According to an initial reconstruction, the prisoner escaped around 20pm, climbing over the perimeter wall of the Avellino prison and disappearing into the surrounding countryside.
While Aldo Di Giacomo of the SPP says: There are three or more escaped prisoners in the
just yesterday. Up 730 percent in a year. The disaster of this government's prison policy and the Department of Prison Administration.
Italian prisons are the worst in Europe; the government continues to pretend nothing is happening, even downplaying the very serious situation. No measures are currently being considered by the government to try to avoid a collapse that is already underway.
The police personnel are now exhausted, this evening in the prison of
In Avellino there were 10 police officers for 600 inmates. The prison police are forced to work dozens of hours of overtime per month.
We are now exhausted, since the beginning of the year over 2000 policemen have ended up in hospital, we have been abandoned at the mercy of criminals who now
they have full control of the prisons.”
Last month a prisoner from Salerno escaped and was found in Aiello del Sabato
The Penitentiary Police officers have started searches (the off-duty personnel have also been recalled), while the Carabinieri and the police have started a widespread monitoring of the territory.
THEevasion It follows the one that occurred last August of a prisoner from Salerno who was intercepted a few hours later in a thick wood in the municipality of Aiello del Sabato, a few kilometers from the prison.
Article published on 9 September 2024 - 06:51
