Prisons, the Guarantor rejects Campania

The inmates present in Italia I am 61,465 ahead of 46,898 places available. In the Campania Region 7,581 attendance while available places are 5.664. And again, 432 prisoners in Campania must serve less than six months while those who have to serve just one year I’m in prison 999. As for suicides from the beginning of the year to August 16, there were 63, 7 of them in Campania. These are some of the data released by Samuel Ciambriello, Campania guarantor of prisoners and spokesperson of the national conference of guarantors of persons deprived of personal libertyin a press conference on overcrowding and suicides in prisons in Campania.

And give

“These are surprising data for overcrowding both for the 2 thousand inmates more in fifteen institutes of Campania, both for 1,402 drug addicts which we could avoid prison. But the other thing that struck me is that we have 1,061 inmates aged 18 to 29: the type of presence in institutions of those who commit crimes of various kinds has changed” commented Ciambriello. In the face of a gloomy picture, the number of prisoners who have been released this year thanks to misure alternative: 2.727. As regards the adults in external penal areain total in Campania, there are 6.334 (while people under investigation I am 3.125). “We need to educators and social workersotherwise if these people do not find someone who acts as a bridge between them and their social inclusion, there is the risk that they will continue to experience recidivism“, he added.

The minors

On the issue minors: in Campania there are 113 minors detained for 117 available places. “I don’t think prison is a deterrent for them: rather than punishing, we need to prevent.“. Hence an appeal to politics: “There are many good practices in Campania in the various institutions and we must increase them. But we need, at this time, a concrete appeal to politics: deflationary measures immediately and throughout Italy: 8mila have to serve less than a year. Let’s think about those who have to serve less than a year and have no impeding crimes and above all let’s put forward concrete proposals because to say hiring 500 new police officers Penitentiary Police in 2025, 500 in 2026 knowing that already in all of Italy by December more than 2 thousand agents will retire, it horrifies us“.

The data

An overview of the detention of women in Campania. A Secondigliano 75 of them are counted after the evacuation of Pozzuoli due to seismic events, but others are at Perugia, Venezia, Milano, Benevento e Salerno. “I ask that they can return as soon as possible to Napoli. Because how can you defend a person if they are far from the territory? How can family members experience affection if they have to travel miles and miles?“, he continued. An appeal also to the supervisory magistrates to verify “in a short time those practices of people who can go on probation to social services with a job outside the prison. And verify as soon as possible to increase the permits to allow them to gradually reintegrate into society“.