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Cremona, revolt in prison and cells on fire for a psychotropic drug: 80 prisoners transferred

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Cremona, revolt in prison and cells on fire for a psychotropic drug: 80 prisoners transferred

The revolt broke out at the agreed signal, shortly after 10 pm, dozens of inmates set fire to sheets and furnishings in their cells, setting off the alarm throughout the Cremona prison. The prison is surrounded by the fore of the order after the management has ordered the complete evacuation of two floors of the prison and the transfer of about 80 inmates. The protest would have been triggered by the change, planned but triggered yesterday, of a psychiatric drug used for the treatment of drug addicted prisoners and subjects with mental disorders. A drug that, however, had become a bargaining chip in the dynamics of relations between prisoners.

“At around 10 pm last night, some inmates of the Prison – reported Gennarino De Fazio, secretary of the mayor Uilpa -, apparently to protest because of the failure to administer a psychiatric drug, set fire to the cells. The flames spread. involving two prison sections on two floors of the building, the second and the third, making it necessary to evacuate about eighty confined people, who were led to strolls “.

The firefighters and prison police officers took a couple of hours to re-establish safety conditions. “We have repeatedly reported the very serious criticalities of the Cremonese prison – says De Fazio -, which adds to those common to almost all penitentiary institutions in the country some particular difficulties, such as those deriving from not having assigned a commander of the penitentiary police who have been in charge of about three years and by an overall management that is characterized by continuous unrest “.

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“We have moved the detainees to the walking courtyards, to avoid poisoning – says Sergio Gervasi, Uilpa representative – at the moment we have no news of any injuries among the detainees. The flames were set on sheets, mattresses and oil. The incendiary protest is triggered. was the decision of the health authority to suspend the administration of that drug to drug addicts and people with psychiatric disorders to replace it with another one. It had been announced and it has been realized “.

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