Prisons, the slaughter doesn’t cease: one other jail officer commits suicide

He was 36 years previous, initially from Cittanova (RC), and had been employed on the Nationwide Operations Centre in Rome for a few months: this morning he was supposed to start out work, however through the evening he took his personal life by taking pictures himself, apparently along with his service weapon.

A drip of damaged lives

Thus, tragically, the variety of members of the Penitentiary Police Corps who’ve taken their very own lives because the starting of the yr rises to six, the earlier one in Favignana solely final Sunday, whereas the variety of inmate suicides in the identical interval quantities to 52. A carnage, an unprecedented bloodbath that can’t fail to have, even when amongst completely different causes, a standard origin. “A drip of damaged lives that sees the Authorities inert, evidently able to passing solely small decrees”, says Gennarino De Fazio, Normal Secretary of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police, “maybe instrumental to political methods, however actually not helpful to raise the fortunes of an more and more adrift jail system, nor to cease the spiral of dying that has no precedent”.

“Numbers you don’t have any reminiscence of”

“We all know nicely {that a} collection of things contribute to an excessive gesture resembling suicide”, continues De Fazio, “however what is going on, with an incidence unparalleled within the historical past of the penitentiary administration, can’t however derive instantly from causes linked to the work carried out. Because of this, for us, these are deaths in service and due to service”,

On the Locri County Jail

“The colleague, who was not married, earlier than being transferred to the Nationwide Operations Heart in Rome, had served on the Locri District Jail and his father, additionally a jail officer, now retired, had additionally labored in Calabria. We’re dismayed and heartbroken in his grief and that of his whole household. We ask Minister Nordio and the Meloni Authorities to really take inventory of the scenario, they bear the burden of political and ethical duty for all these deaths”, concludes De Fazio.