It is "absolutely necessary that urgent and truly incisive interventions are adopted which, without abdicating the fundamental function of the State of guaranteeing the security of the community, really take into account the fact that prisons are extremely dangerous places of spread of the infection that expose entire communities at risk. , made up of prisoners and all those who continue to serve you. " The National Association of Magistrates asked for urgent measures for prisons for the Coronavirus emergency, highlighting "the inadequacy" of the measures already taken by the government and which provide for home detention for those who must serve an 18-month residual sentence subject to availability of electronic bracelets, today "completely insufficient".
Meanwhile, the Sixth Commission of the CSM rejects the measures provided for by the Cura Italia decree. Having conditioned home detention to the use of electronic bracelets, which are in fact unavailable, "will significantly contribute" to making this institution "inadequate to achieve the aims of reducing prison overcrowding in order to contain the high risk of widespread contagion to inside the penitentiary institutions and better management of the health emergency ". So the Sixth Commission of the CSM rejects the measures foreseen for prisons by the Cura Italia dl. The opinion will be discussed on Thursday by the plenum of the Marshal's Palace.
In Bari, as in almost all Italian prisons, a procedure has been developed to ensure in any case the contacts of prisoners with families and from Friday, to further limit contacts with the outside, even with the defenders. And so, thanks to technology, by connecting with their families, prisoners can virtually return to their homes, find their loved ones, their pets. "After an initial distrust they are now happy," explains the director of the Bari district house, Valeria Pirè. "We have hundreds of requests," he says, revealing that "many of us are also moved, because they begin to see their dog, how they have renovated the bathroom. They go home."
