In Italian prisons each year die of natural causes more than 100 detainees. The newspapers rarely give news. Sometimes, the cause of death is cardiovascular disease, other times, marks the culmination of a chronic illness or hunger strike or even a suicide, in prison that has a frequency 19 times higher.
Other deaths, however, are suspected of abuse by staff on duty or violence by other detainees. The tragic case of Stephen Cucchi is just the latest in a series that originated in past years. The Judiciary is already dealing with the death of Louis Acquaviva, Julian Costantini, Francesco Romeo, Mauro Fedele. E 'plausible the hypothesis of murder, but, pending the outcome of the judicial investigation, these deaths are still classified as "natural causes".
often these plays are located in dilapidated structures, with little re-education activities, which is low even volunteering. These deficiencies must be added the cuts and the reduction of prison health staff. The detainee does not are guaranteed the rights to health and dignity.
latter actually destroyed in people in prison awaiting trial. Today, just because a notice of a newspaper and television destroy the life of the suspect, without taking into account the presumption of innocence guaranteed by the laws and the State, until a final ruling. Persons under investigation, that 50% of cases will eventually acquitted ... But now their name has been associated with criminal events and that's what stays in people's memories. Not the sentence of acquittal or correction of the paragraph in the newspapers.
another critical is that of reintegration into society, at the end of the sentence. There are bodies responsible for supporting people released from prison, the councils of social welfare, required by the Prison Reform Act of 1975. There are also offices for the Criminal Execution External (UEPE), with the dual function of monitoring and support during the implementation of alternative measures. But often, everything remains on paper. The penalty is just retribution, rehabilitation is rejected. It follows that the addict will return to drugs, the thief to steal, to kill the murderess.
course, the solutions do not come magically from the cylinder. But it could promote projects prevention of suicide and self harm, monitor - making use of associations prison and newspapers - the deaths in prisons, provide access to health care volunteers to accompany the medical staff on duty. The foreign prisoners, more numerous, and require targeted health education, socio-cultural mediation ...
In this bleak landscape, become emblematic, and dramatically present the words of Adriano Sofri written in 1999 in "il Foglio" "I want to return to this avoidance of shame. In the last three months have escaped from Rebibbia and one from Milan Opera. old people, with knotted sheets ... But the most common form of evasion and insidious, because they form so as to be ignored in the statistics criminals, is suicide. A hundred criminals a year if they go well, sometimes the sheets with their administration.
It's time to say enough. "
Massimiliano Fanni Canelles
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