Prisons, Inmate Kills Himself in Venice: Variety of Suicides Since Starting of Yr Rises to 56

Venezia – Initially from San Donà di Piave, he just lately turned 37, detained for varied crimes associated to drug dealing, was discovered hanged with a sheet in his cell within the Santa Maria Maggiore jail in Venice through the night time. Rescue efforts have been in useless.

The variety of suicide deaths because the starting of the 12 months has thus risen to 56. “To those we should then add the 6 members of the Penitentiary Police who took their very own lives. An unstoppable bloodbath”, he raises the alarm Gennaro DeFaziobasic secretary of the Uilpa penitentiary police.

“We’re within the midst of an unprecedented jail emergency. 14,500 inmates over the utmost capability, 18,000 models lacking from the jail police, murders, suicides, collective protests and really frequent problems, fights, rapes, assaults, fires, devastation, escapes, trafficking of drugs, cell telephones and weapons, however what else should occur to impress a proportionate intervention by the Authorities and Parliament? Are we anticipating an much more critical bloodbath? A mass escape? What? As a result of it’s clear that if we proceed like this one thing else irreparable will occur very quickly”, provides the secretary of Uilpa.

“It’s tautologically evident that an emergency just like the one in progress can’t be addressed with atypical measures, a lot much less with ineffective decrees just like the one just lately accredited by the Authorities. Distinctive and pressing interventions are wanted to right away deflate the jail density, enable important and actual extraordinary and accelerated hiring within the Penitentiary Police and guarantee well being and psychiatric help. Complete reforms should then be initiated. Time has already run out”, concludes De Fazio.