It's now official, the Ministry of Justice has also announced: the 41 bis wing is opening in the Uta prison. It will house 92 mafiosi. The inauguration is "soon," and the ministry reserves the right to "announce the actual date ." But the note sent to all interested parties is clear: "Preparations are underway, each according to their own area of expertise."
The addressees of the letter sent by the Director General of the Department of Penitentiary Administration, Ernesto Napolillo, are: the presidents of the Surveillance Court and the Court of Cagliari, the Public Prosecutor, the Prefect, the Police Chief, the Provincial Commander of the Carabinieri, the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor of Rome, the Superintendent of the Regional Penitentiary Administration, and the Director General of the Local Health Authority.
The letter is sent "for due notice, also in terms of ensuring public safety, as well as for the possible adjustment of individual competent functions."
<p>Paolo Cugliara, Fials Cagliari trade unionist</p>And it's on one of these, healthcare, that the provincial secretary of FIALS, Paolo Cugliara, raises the alarm: "In Sardinia, there are no doctors and no nurses. Yet, with the arrival of this slew of mafiosi, it will also be necessary to guarantee healthcare: the nurses working in prisons are already exhausted, obviously understaffed," the union representative emphasizes, "and they want to burden an already collapsing system with responsibility for highly dangerous inmates?"
Cugliara's further concern: " The small section of the Santissima Trinità prison dedicated to prisoners: there's been talk of reactivating it. Are we sure—and the question is rhetorical—that it's capable of housing mafiosi, with all the security implications their presence entails?"
