Salerno, escape from Fuorni prison foiled

The sensational escape of a prisoner from the Fuorni prison was foiled Salerno. And Sappe’s protest has stopped. «Today, in the VI Section of the Fuorni Department in Salerno, there was an attempt to escape by a common prisoner in precautionary isolation», communicate Tiziana Guaccisecretary for the Campania region of the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union, «The man, after being taken to the promenade courtyard, managed to climb over the surrounding wall, taking advantage of the fact that there was only one Penitentiary Police unit employed to guard the promenade courtyard, “Isolation Section” and “Promiscuous Protected Section”. A female unit, which was on “service – sentry”, noticed what was happening and immediately raised the alarm. The prison police staff promptly intervened and blocked the inmate near the sports field.”

Guacci returns to denounce that «the tension in Fuorni also continues for the many prisoners who, despite having obvious psychiatric behaviors, are not declared as such and therefore continue to be restricted to common sections while in the Mental Health Unit we find people who have been detained there for more than two years . It is quite clear that, also from this point of view, there must be constant and careful monitoring of the Campania Regional Superintendency on penitentiary healthcare in order to adopt appropriate interventions on this type of inmates, which have now become unmanageable by the Penitentiary Police personnel”.

«Sappe has requested on several occasions the intervention of the Ministry of Justice and the national bodies of the Penitentiary Administration to evaluate the work of the Regional Penitentiary Superintendent Lucia Castellano”, highlight Donato Capecegeneral secretary of, who remembers how “in my constant and continuous visits to the Campania penitentiaries I have met and still meet the policemen who work there every day with great professionalism, a spirit of self-sacrifice, a sense of duty and of the institutions, with humanity, despite the fact that a good part of the prisons are marked, some more some less, from organic, organizational and internal security deficiencies, a consequence of evidently unsuccessful regional management and coordination: I am thinking, for example, of the many and continuous mobility measures in the regional context”.

“Because of this – highlights the Sappe leader – I believe that the Campania Region and the institutional representatives of Campania cannot overlook the critical issues and penitentiary problems, but rather be involved in their solution to give meaning to Article 27 of the Constitution which aims at the re-educational treatment of the sentence. We need the strong and clear presence of the State, which cannot tolerate even widespread impunity, and urgent and effective measures are needed to re-establish order and security, truly implementing that zero tolerance towards those violent prisoners who, even in prison, are convinced of be able to continue to commit crimes with absolute impunity” conclude.