The working conditions of the Penitentiary Police in the Uta prison are increasingly unsustainable. The trade union organizations underline this on the occasion of the umpteenth episode of violence that occurred yesterday: a prisoner devastated his cell by setting it on fire and the officers had to evacuate the section due to the large amount of smoke. The man, around 40 years old, was taken to the infirmary and there too continued his aggressive attitude by punching a policeman who had to go to the emergency room.

The staff managed to take matters into their own hands and restore order.

"Prisoners of this type - say in a joint note Sappe, Uil Pa, Sinappe, Uspp and PolGiust - take every opportunity to vent their anger and their respective psycho-physical problems against the police". Their impetuousness "turns into real vandalism inside the sleeping rooms where furniture and bathroom fixtures are disintegrated". “Aggression, self-harming gestures and suicide attempts are the order of the day and make the work of the prison police extremely complicated, already in difficulty due to the lack of staff in all sectors; by now these inmates have become a real scourge in various prisons in Sardinia and specific treatments within therapeutic communities would be required for their management. "

The trade unions also underline that they will adopt "every useful initiative to involve the institutions so that solutions can be found to protect the prison police and make the prison a place where policemen can work with dignity and with the ideal conditions to achieve the institutional goals envisaged by the our Constitution ".

(Unioneonline / ss)