(ANSA) - CROTONE, APRIL 7 - The detainees of the Crotone prison have been on hunger strike since Friday and, to urge interventions against overcrowding and the risk of coronavirus contagion, have written to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and to the Minister of Justice, AlfonsoBonafede.
"We are 146 - they say in the letter - in a prison where 90 can stay: urgent interventions are needed because the measures of prevention do not exist and a single contagion would be enough to involve all the detained population". In the letter, issued by the guarantor of the detainees of the Municipality of Crotone, Federico Ferraro, the detainees complain of overcrowding and fears about the evolution of the pandemic. "We live in rooms where instead of five - they argue - we are eight and in those of two we are four". The detainees ask the government to adopt legislative measures that allow compliance with the security measures imposed by the WHO and the Ministry of Health, even within their district home.
Covid risk, inmates hunger strike
2020-04-07T16:12:47.752Z
From Friday the prisoners of Crotone prison are on hunger strike and, to urge interventions against overcrowding and the risk of contagion from coronavirus, they have written to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and to the Minister of G ... (ANSA)