Two attacks on officers in two days, the climate in Massama prison is now incandescent and the situation is at the limit. First an officer beaten with violent punches to the face just because he had prevented the inmate from making an unauthorized video call, now another beating.
A High Security inmate hit an inspector who was trying to explain to him the compulsory nature of internal controls which he instead did not want to comply with. The intervention of the other policemen was providential. «The situation is literally out of control, the policemen are physically attacked and their dignity is also damaged – claims the regional secretary of the Uilpa Michele Cireddu – it is a macabre series of attacks which often takes place without any motivation or because some inmates vent their frustrations on the operators who try in every way to guarantee legality in the institutions".
Cireddu reiterates that the last two episodes are a wake-up call that cannot go unheeded. «In both cases the staff had the sole "fault" of having enforced the laws and having guaranteed legality in an Institute that seems abandoned by the Institutions» he added, recalling that in the Oristano prison «more than fifty policemen asked transfer to other locations. A summit between the various prefects is needed to decree the state of emergency and the concrete risk to public safety."
