Italian territorial guarantors of people deprived of personal freedom will chant aloud the names of the 31 suicides that occurred in 2024. The initiative was announced today by Stefano Anastasa, guarantor of people subjected to measures restricting personal freedom in Lazio.
In 32 years, 1,754 inmates have died by suicide. In the same years, 2,912 have died due to illness, overdose, and homicide. The total is an impressive number; we are talking about 4,686 people in prison who died. We cannot afford to have these levels of overcrowding in the summer. In Italy, compared to 48,000 places in prisons, there are 61,000 prisoners. There are 1,151 prisoners for 628 places in Regina Coeli, for example, in Rome. There is a prison in Rome with a population of 628, double the number of prisoners in the prison in Italy as a whole. The prison has a capacity of 1,150 prisoners.