(ANSA) – CORIGLIANO-ROSSANO, MARCH 30 – An inmate in the Rossano prison set fire to his cell, causing a blanket of smoke that made the air unbreathable, both for the prison police and for the other inmates. Only the intervention of the officers averted worse consequences. The man, of Maghreb origins, reports Sappe, is the same one who attacked the prison officers last Thursday in the emergency room of the city hospital.
In the case of the fire, say Giovanni Battista Durante, deputy general secretary of Sappe and Francesco Ciccone, regional secretary, “the men of the penitentiary police, with cunning and professionalism, also managed to tame the flames and restore order and security Unfortunately, in the Rossano prison, in recent months, mainly inmates continue to be sent to prison who, in their institutions of origin, appear to have promoted similar events.
In fact, even today, a prisoner with psychiatric problems, who was the protagonist of an attack against two inspectors in an institute in central Italy, was assigned to the Rossana prison”.
“These are subjects – say the two trade unionists – who are difficult to manage and who pose a serious risk to the order and safety of the prison. Even though many of these have quite serious pathologies, they are still transferred to the Rossonese prison where there is no territorial structure of mental health, for the management of the same.
Among other things, they tell us that in the same institution the psychiatrist visits twice a week, absolutely insufficient to follow the inmates who need it.”
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