New emergency in Uta prison where an inmate first set fire to his cell and then attacked the officer who rushed to the scene to save him from the flames. The fire was put out by prison police personnel, who made the area safe but 6 officers were intoxicated by the noxious fumes from the combustion.
This was made known by the general secretary of the UILpa Penitentiary Police of Sardinia Michele Cireddu: «These were extremely hectic moments , a prisoner of Maghreb origin started a fire creating havoc in the transit section where he was located. In an attempt to save him, an officer got the worst of it: the person who started the fire attacked him with a kick to the knee. Reinforcements intervened and took the prisoner out of the room to facilitate the doctors' intervention."
According to what was reported by the secretary of the Uta Institute, the critical events do not seem to stop and the prison maintains the "sad record of the macabre ranking of critical events in the region". With the continuous problems "working in the detention sections has now become prohibitive, the exorbitant number of critical events create discomfort and unsustainable stress, even 6 hours in such a situation are too many, because the quality of the work is unsustainable", continues Cireddu.
«We firmly reject the Administration's tendency to force staff to work 8 hours. We expected concrete interventions from the government to stem the phenomenon of aggression with anti-aggression tools and equipment and instead a 300-page operational protocol arrived, which was unfeasible because it provides a series of considerations that seem to have been made by those who have never entered an Institute Penitentiary. An institute like Uta needs an expert Commander close to the staff with whom to immediately reorganize the work because the staff needs concrete interventions", concludes the general secretary.
(Unioneonline/vf)
