Below, we publish with pleasure the last intervention by Niccolò Guicciardini Provincial Council.
This is the submission of the motion "The situation of the House of Imprisonment for Ranza in the town of San Gimignano and the House C. of Siena. "
intervention can be found on the original blog of Nicholas .
Hello everyone,
begin by giving a bit 'of numbers. In Italy we have 65,067 prisoners, of whom less than half the defendants and the rest (33,247) convicted. Of these 24,152 are immigrants and it is remarkable that the number of defendants held among immigrants exceed those convicted of nearly four thousand prisoners, among Italian citizens, while the number of prisoners sentenced to nearly six thousand units more than the accused prisoners.
In short, Italy has a large prison population, which often leads to overcrowding and difficulties in management. For this reason, a few days ago, January 13, the government said the state of national emergency. Accordingly, in paragraph 219 of the Finance Act 2010 has been allocated five hundred million for prison facilities, or providing for the construction of new facilities or increasing the capacity of existing ones. In particular, it is planned the construction of forty-seven new pavilions flanked by structures already present in the territories. In all this, it is also planned to take some units as Penitentiary Police. All this means that something is served to the protests, the commitment and determination of so many citizens, local institutions, the prison officers ... All this is not enough. The creation of new halls is really dangerous, if not rational: I think I can say right now that such a solution should not be at all good for the House of Imprisonment for San Gimignano. I ask in the first instance to add the following two corrections to the motion. Enter in the conclusion of the seventh paragraph the phrase "as evidenced in a letter to Mayor James Bassi Minister Angelino Alfano," and inserted at the end of the motion, "despite the small signal data in approving the 2010 budget, which we hope will be only one base start of a new and more effective government intervention on the issues at stake. "
All this is not enough, I said. The situation shown in Motion remains. We can not consider the prisons as places of storage of toxic waste that our society produces, we can not consider the prisons as places to lock up to make them harmless outcasts, were the same as sending them to a remote desert island. We can not regard the prison at a cost to be optimized for both men and women cram into narrow cells, damaging their rights as human beings. We can not accept that (and the overcrowded conditions affecting) there is a such a high rate of suicide in prison. Cito Sofri that tells how in the prisons there is "despair on which falls no more anesthetic and that translates into a high suicide rate, which are especially significant because they committed by young people who have short-term imprisonment, in addition to widespread forms physical self-harm. " 2009 was the year with more suicides in prison of our history: 72.
Finally, we can not tie the concept of holding merely that of 'punishment'. Conversely, the prison system is part of the company and it plays a crucial role through the rehabilitation and the stages trattamentali. Without going into details, but I highly recommend reading as Cesare Beccaria our representatives today to the Government, the message that we must be loud and clear: invest in the prison system is an investment in a better society.
And some simplistic interpretations of the conditions of detainees, however, concern more so after the news events of recent months, allowing time they find. He always had to say Sofri as "pain in the prisons is a kind of perpetual fund and in this sense deaf: a pain, that is, no laughter, no fun game, no push-boys who are the majority of the prison population today -, no football or soccer or football can make you forget even for a moment. " I think these words express well what we're talking about.
In Tuscany we have 4321 inmates, almost as a municipality of our province. 386 prisoners are held in Siena about. There is a situation that has become intolerable for some time and that our institution can make its commitment and solidarity since the adoption of this motion, which I hope will find convergences also by minorities because it is a problem in our area.
I'll briefly. Firstly, the overpopulation of Ranza. Prison Ranza lives in significant overcrowding. For now we have an overcrowding estimated about 103 prisoners. This means an objective difficulty in guaranteeing a decent standard of living, despite the daily work and commitment of many players and agents. A Ranza there are 306 inmates, with a complexity and a very heterogeneous composition. More than one third, in fact (120 now), are foreigners, fifty and forty North Africans in Europe Europe. This situation makes it even more diverse demands on staff in the prison.
second point in the face of this situation, Ranza there is a shortage of around 42% compared to the staffing plan provided for a prison of this size. There are now 131 active units in the prison with a deficit of 102 units. The ministerial decree of 2001 on, in fact, provides duecentotrentatré units active in the House of Imprisonment for Ranza. In particular, inspectors lack twelve, eleven and thirty-six officers and assistant superintendents. This leads to an action required to work overtime, which means six days of work on average more per month for each unit.
addition, the burden and responsibility have become intolerable for the Police Ranza Penitentiary, which puts at risk their physical safety. It 'not many months ago, the episode of a serious assault by a prisoner who has sent along an agent in the hospital prison. These are serious matters that generate insecurity, difficulty in carrying out their work, find it difficult to turn a lot of activities ... At this time it is activated by the Mayor of San Gimignano, James Bassi, many other local authorities, as well as the Honourable Franco Ceccuzzi and Susanna Cenni.
Thirdly Ranza to lack a stable leadership. The current manager is engaged in the conduct of another institution in a region far away from our strength and this generates problems. Also, just missing the award of the Director as head of the permanent staff.
The fourth point is in the factors of insecurity felt by the population of San Gimignano and in particular those who live near the prison. This too is an aspect to consider.
The fifth point is, however, the District Prison of Siena. Even here there is a shortage of staff, equal to eighteen, of which ten agents or assistants. Overcrowding in Siena is calculated in about thirty prisoners. But what is most worrying of hygiene standards. The prison structure is indeed crumbling, untenable under the aspect of sanitation. In addition, location in the center does not help, nor the possibility of intervening in a decisive way on the structure, either in balance security with an external environment mainly based on tourism. On this we must do something.
The sixth point I want to bring to your attention concerns the impossibility, in this condition, often do the work, in particular, implement and keep alive the network of relationships with important groups in the fabric of our country. There are many associations and organizations that are committed to create a solid bridge between prison and society that are able to affect in a decisive way on the return. Support and make the prison a safe place for those who go to work is a primary objective.
Another aspect, the seventh at this point is that the Government has not given detailed and precise answers to precise and detailed questions of local authorities and our MPs. I hope that by the opposition of this council there is a desire to bring this matter to the attention. I hope that on this issue we can do a job together, since we are talking about issues so important to our lives and territories.
We have to consider the prison as a strategic and complementary companies. To do this, you need the will to invest and pay attention to what's happening. Thank you
for your attention.
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