«Today the thermometer that I brought to prison in Uta showed 43 degrees . The inmates were crammed into cells measuring 6 by 2 m2, for a total of 4 inmates per cell . Due to overcrowding, a fourth bed has been added in almost all sections. The staff is at the end of their strength , and the inspector was barely able to accompany me to the sections."
Thus begins the note from the regional guarantor of prisoners Irene Testa, who addresses Minister Nordio personally, inviting him to visit the prisons to put an end to a now unsustainable situation .
«Psychiatric, toxic and seriously disabled patients are allocated in non-compliant cells without personnel for assistance – continues Testa -. Making the penitentiary community live in these conditions, without air conditioning systems, without fans, with seriously disabled people in non-compliant cells is scandalous. Illness is punished and discomfort is confined. We are facing a humanitarian emergency that is at a point of no return . There is an ongoing process of dehumanization and degradation, of deprivation of fundamental human rights."
Hence the appeal to the minister to "come and visit our prisons". «To decide – the conclusion – it is necessary to know and understand well the problems of those who live in this hell every day».
(Unioneonline/vl)