(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 04 - The dirty mattress, like the floor on which it was placed, with columns of ants, and plates with dirt accumulated for some time.
No furniture and a few sheets of newspaper in place of the bed kit.
The toilet drain is broken, the sink drain clogged, and the only sealed window, with no air passage, with an unbearable temperature.
These are the degrading conditions in which the Guarantor of persons deprived of their liberty found a detainee in the Regina Coeli prison, in the cell intended for those at risk of suicide.
For the Guarantor, human rights have been violated.
Tell the decision to inform the Rome prosecutor's office.
Room number 1 of Section Eight of Regina Coeli was "immediately released and subjected to repairs and reclamation", the conditions of which prompted the Guarantor of persons deprived of liberty to inform the prosecutor of Rome.
The deputy head of the Dap Carmelo Cantone writes this in a letter published on the website of the Guarantor.
"At the origin of what unpleasantly I noted in the visit of 18 July, it is certainly to be considered the difficulty that the management of the institute has in dedicating appropriate rooms to each emergency case" writes, among other things, Cantone, explaining that the cases to be addressed are often higher than the availability suitable distances and, if this "cannot justify the conditions" that have been found by the Guarantor, "