“In order to prevent and combat the dramatic phenomenon of suicides within the prison population, I have signed a decree which provides for the assignment of 5 million euros to the penitentiary administration for the current year for the strengthening of treatment and psychological services in institutes, through the involvement of specialized experts and professionals external to the administration" so [...]
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17 certified professional training projects and work placements are underway: they will involve 316 prisoners, for a total investment of almost 800 thousand euros. They were approved in recent days by the Board of Directors of Cassa delle Ammende, as part of a Plan for certified professional training and for the expansion of professionalizing job opportunities launched [...]
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Interventions on personnel and buildings. Alarming youth unease, I propose an interministerial table “What happened in the Beccaria prison in Milan is the latest indicator of a growing and alarming youth unease, which everyone – each in their own role – is called to deal with. I trust that the interventions, implemented and planned by the Ministry, can contribute to [...]
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Cartabia: “profound connoisseur of administration” Carmelo Cantone appointed new Deputy Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration. The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, signed the ministerial decree conferring the assignment on June 15, now at the Court of Auditors for registration. Catanese, 64 years old, current regional supervisor for Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise, boasts over XNUMX years of experience [...]
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“As head of the Penitentiary Administration, I can only be saddened by the fact that a woman had to give birth in prison. Fortunately, this is a story that ended without any critical issues and now both the mother and the baby are fine ”. This was stated yesterday, in a note, by the Head of the Administration Department [...]
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"An offense and an outrage to the dignity of the person of the prisoners and also to that uniform that every woman and every man of the Penitentiary Police must wear with honor, for the difficult, fundamental and delicate task they are called to perform". In front of the published videos of what happened in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere the year [...]
read moreThe places made available by the Ministry of Justice – Department of Penitentiary Administration for the professional profile of Legal-Pedagogical Officer have increased from 95 to 210. This was established by a decree signed today by the Director General of Personnel and Resources, Massimo Parisi, which raises the availability of places provided for in the call published in the Official Gazette [...]
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The updated report produced by the Working Group for the study of a new custody model will soon be available to the Head of the Penitentiary Administration Department, Bernardo Petralia. The indication to update and integrate the pre-existing work, started in April 2019 and completed in November of the same year, "with further aspects worthy of discussion" started [...]
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“There are reports of riots in Italian prisons. Dead, injured, violence, wards destroyed and the prison police struggling to contain the anger of the women and men detained, alarmed by the news coming from outside. Faced with this situation, we certainly cannot turn the other way: we must act quickly and decisively to appease the [...]
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With 99 per 100.000 inhabitants, Italy joins the countries suffering from overcrowding in prisons exceeding their capacity by over 117,9% It also comes from an online database that provides free access to information on prison systems around the world, the expected scrutiny on the Italian prison situation. A real drama that [...]
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