Overcrowding in prisons in Umbria is 119% (1,531 men and 69 women). This was reported by the Luca Coscioni association, which sent a warning, on a national scale, to the 102 Local Health Authorities where the 189 Italian penal institutions are located. “These are – it is explained in a note – warnings to fulfill their task established by law: to carry out inspections in the penitentiary facilities under their jurisdiction with the aim of assessing the circumstances relating to hygiene and prophylaxis of the same, the provision of all social and health services and to act accordingly, if they are not up to standard”. An initiative launched “in light of the almost total lack in the recent prison decree of structural measures aimed at guaranteeing the right to health in the 189 penal institutions in Italy which takes into account the fact that the general directors of the health companies are responsible for reporting to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice on the visits carried out and the measures to be adopted. It is in fact the responsibility of the Local Health Authorities – the association underlines – to ascertain, also through inspection visits to the penal institutions, that the hygiene conditions are respected and, if not, to intervene to stop any serious shortcomings”. “The Luca Coscioni association – it is further explained – has decided to launch this initiative because the total lack of attention dedicated to health in the latest government decree on prisons, in addition to what has been systematically denounced by the reports of the city and regional guarantors, by press reports and reports of parliamentary inspection visits, reveal a situation of patent structural violation, among other things, of the right to health of people detained in our country”, declared the lawyer Filomena Gallo and Marco Cappato, secretary and treasurer of the Luca Coscioni association, together with the former senator Marco Perduca who coordinates the initiative.
Perugia
20/08/2024 15:56
Editorial Staff
