A prisoner in the 41-bis prison is being held at the Santissima Trinità in Cagliari, in a room in the pavilion housing the Pneumology ward. This is not the ward that should be dedicated to the care of prisoners, which is not yet ready. Therefore, according to leaks, the precautions that should be applied to the management of those serving sentences in maximum security regimes are not being taken.
The news is being kept quiet: almost no one at the Is Mirrionis hospital is aware of the prisoner's presence, who, based on the little information that has leaked out, is believed to be Sicilian. He arrived at the Santissima Trinità during the week.
Surveillance is discreet. Two men are keeping watch inside the room and two outside. They aren't wearing uniforms. It wouldn't be apparent that a mafia inmate is being held there, in the upper, less crowded part of the hospital. But this evening, several prison officers arrived in their service car in front of the Pulmonology ward. It's possible their arrival was linked to a tense episode recorded twenty-four hours earlier: the inmate allegedly went on a rampage, breaking a respirator and a radiator. But it's pointless to ask the facility's health authorities for confirmation: the matter is being kept strictly confidential.
And if there's a tense atmosphere at Santissima Trinità now, who knows how the healthcare situation will be handled with the arrival of the additional 92 prisoners under the 41-bis regime assigned to the maximum security wing of Uta prison, a situation that has been strongly contested even by the President of the Cagliari Region, Alessandra Todde. In January, the inmates' ombudsman for the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Gianni Loy, urged the governor to release the resources needed to renovate the premises for the detention ward at Santissima Trinità. But nothing seems to have happened since then. And the mafiosi are ending up with the common patients.
