(ANSA) – NAPLES, 07 JUL – “Keeping a ninety-year-old man in jail, already four years in prison, and an obese of 270 kilos, with heart problems, reconfirms that in our country there is a raw and retrograde legal culture, which it does not take into account the dictates of the Constitution “: says the Campania Guarantor of the rights of persons subjected to a restrictive measure of personal freedom, Samuele Ciambriello, who is dealing with the cases of these two detainees, both confined to the Poggioreale prison.
According to the Guarantor, the situation is “paradoxical”. “Mario – he explains – is a prisoner who weighs 270 kilos, suffers from heart problems and also has several fractures, he does not enter the cell, he broke through two beds, both in prison and in the hospital, where he was hospitalized two weeks ago. to still be subjected to custody in prison? How is it possible that an alternative measure is not applied? Also because we are talking about a non-impeding crime. It seems to me a persistence “.
Ciambriello, who underlines how the lack of doctors, nurses and equipment in prisons prevents adequate assistance to the “many inmates with more or less serious pathologies”, adds that particular attention must be paid not only to the sick, but also to the elderly. And a ninety-year-old has been imprisoned in Poggioreale for four years. “I, it is obvious and redundant to say, I think that the prison – says the guarantor – is not a suitable place for people of this age, whatever the crime.
For these people it is necessary to find alternative solutions. In Campania there are cooperatives and associations which, through a project co-financed by Cassa Ammende and the Campania Region, welcome homeless men and women. We need to take on the task of strengthening these alternative and improving paths, not continuing to turn away “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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