C. accounts, jail overcrowding makes the punishment a revenge

(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 28 – “Public sources constructively used to create extra humane dwelling situations in prisons, with a view to actual reintegration, are usually not wasted, however effectively used to make sure everybody’s security”. That is what we learn within the report of the Legal professional Common of the Court docket of Auditors, Pio Silvestri, within the context of the Judgment on the overall state funds 2023. The report warns in opposition to overcrowding and the “breaking of emotional ties” in establishments, which “danger making punishment a ‘public revenge’, fairly than a second of reflection and a brand new begin”. Whereas acknowledging the steps ahead with respect to the most important important problems with the previous, the report highlights, “the jail universe nonetheless seems at the moment to be the expression of a fracture between what it must be and what it really is, of such magnitude as to fret the Guarantor (of prisoners, ed.), the associations and the operators themselves who function within the space below investigation”. The doc of the President of the Court docket of Auditors, continues, “goals to supply components and meals for thought to the institutionally accountable authorities and to public opinion, which should not lose curiosity in what occurs past the partitions of penal establishments, because the situations of prisons, as is understood, signify the measure of the extent of civilization of a State. Coping with prisons, finally, means coping with the extent of well being of our democracy”. (ANSA).