Tried assault on a decide in Terni jail

(ANSA) – TERNI, JUNE 24 – A decide of the Terni felony courtroom was the sufferer of an tried assault by an Italian prisoner contained in the Terni jail throughout an interrogation. This was reported by the overall prosecutor’s workplace of Perugia led by Sergio Sottani. “The fast intervention of the jail police workers – he explains in a word – prevented worse penalties that might have arisen from the violent assault carried out utilizing the deal with of a plastic fork, sharpened and hidden by the prisoner between the fingers of his hand”. The assault – we be taught from investigative sources – was carried out by a 42-year-old prisoner of Apulian origins, already recognized for related details and recipient of a precautionary custody order in jail exactly for threats to a Justice of the Peace. Following the incident, the listening to – a letter rogatory delegated by the Potenza judicial authority – was suspended. The person shall be reported to the Terni public prosecutor’s workplace, which coordinates the investigations carried out by the penitentiary police. The overall prosecutor’s workplace discovered that “in recent times, incidents of violence inside Umbrian prisons have elevated”. Throughout 2022 – the word explains – 99 instances of aggression between prisoners had been reported, 28 towards penitentiary police workers and one towards penitentiary employees. In 2023, these assaults suffered a “sharp enhance”: assaults between prisoners rose to 124, 69 towards jail police workers and three towards jail employees. “The information for 2024 are much more spectacular as within the first quarter there have already been 45 assaults between prisoners, 28 towards jail police workers” writes Lawyer Normal Sottani. To those numbers have to be added – the Workplace additional explains – the 25 suicide makes an attempt and three suicides of prisoners inside Umbrian penitentiaries in 2022, which elevated within the following 2023 to 36 instances of tried suicide and three suicides. Within the first quarter of this 12 months there have already been 23 suicide makes an attempt and one suicide. The overall prosecutor’s workplace additionally speaks of a “state of affairs that causes excessive concern and will worsen with the approaching arrival of the summer time season, which notoriously favors conditions of battle inside penitentiary establishments”. He additionally underlined “the usually reported lack of each the workers, to the extent of roughly 200 items, of penitentiary police personnel within the Umbrian territory, and of medical and remedy space personnel, outfitted with particular expertise for the care of the detained inhabitants topic to psychological problems”. (HANDLE).