Inmate hangs himself after a few hours in a cell in Crotone
A prisoner hanged himself in the night between Thursday 22 and Friday 23 September, in a cell of the Crotone prison after a few hours after his arrival in the penitentiary. It is a young man from Crotone with mental problems who had already attempted suicide in freedom, just arrived in prison for the crime of mistreatment in the family.
The phenomenon of suicides in prison, beyond the specific case, however, follows a very worrying trend, as explained in this article.
In this case, the detainee hanged himself on the bed of the cell in which he was locked up, during the change of officers’ shift, using shoelaces. The attempts at resuscitation of health workers and policemen were useless. The news was given by the Sappe Penitentiary Police Autonomous Syndicate. “As you know, we have always said that the death of an inmate it is always a defeat for the state“, Comments Donato Capece, general secretary of the union who recalls a pronouncement of the National Committee for Bioethics who had emphasized that” suicide is only one aspect of the broader and more complex identity crisis that prison determines, altering relationships and relationships, disrupting existential perspectives, weakening projects and hopes “.
For Capece “the clearest and most radical way to eliminate all these inconveniences would be that of an overall rethinking of the function of the penalty and, within it, of the role of the prison. The consistent presence of inmates with psychiatric problems has also been the cause of serious problems for some time as regards the order and safety of the country’s prisons. The staff of the Penitentiary Police are exhausted by the tiring pace of work due to the violent and continuous attacks. And it is serious that, despite being aware of the problems connected to the large presence of psychiatric inmatesthe competent Authorities have not yet been able to find a solution “.
For the Sappe leader, “if the heads of the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Penitentiary Administration are unable to find solutions to the very serious situation of Italian prisons and the protection of members of the Penitentiary Police Corps, they must have the dignity to resign “.
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