Naples. "2024 ended with more than 2000 suicide attempts and 13000 acts of self-harm. I'm outraged because even today, 23 deaths have occurred from causes yet to be determined! A year later, we still don't know how they died. In the first week of the year, six inmates have already decided to take their own lives."
Thus the Campania guarantor of people subjected to restrictive measures of personal freedom, as well as spokesperson of the National Conference of territorial guarantors, Samuele Donut. Lastly, the case of the prison operator in the Paola prison. Lucio C., 57 years old, originally from Salerno, detained in the REMS of San Nicola Baronia who, during a walk in the town with some prisoners, accompanied by the operators, suddenly threw himself from the bridge.
The man died after being taken first to the hospital in Ariano Irpino and then to the Cardarelli hospital in Naples where he was declared dead. An autopsy has been arranged. With 90 suicides, 2024, according to data released by the Ristretti Orizzonti dossier, was a record year in relation to this tragic criticality.
"We need urgent and effective measures - continues Ciambriello - with respect to the protection of mental health. On May 3, 2022, the Regional Council of Campania resolved to create a new Rems in the regional territory as quickly as possible to meet the need for mental and psychiatric care in prison; to date, the psychiatric sections in the prisons of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi and Benevento have been closed.
In the Poggioreale prison - he concludes - with more than 2000 inmates there are only 2 psychiatrists with 400 psychiatric inmates and 80 psychotic inmates. We must immediately hire new psychiatrists and establish a simple mental health operational unit inside Poggioreale".
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