The National Guarantor for the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty Mauro Palma expresses “grave concern for the suicide events that continue to occur in Italian prisons. It is not only the number of lives interrupted that arouses alarm, never so high, with 72 deaths due to suicide in ten months, two of which yesterday – reads a note – but also the fact that these events often concern people restricted to minor crimes and therefore with short or very short sentences. Often fragile people on whom prison it can have an even more severe impact. Read also In light of this situation, the National Guarantor recalls having “greeted with particular favor – underlines Palma – the introduction in the recent justice reform of substitutive sanctions for detention in prison for minor offenses . Reform whose entry into force is scheduled for next November 1: this – he says – will be the real signal that the world of detention, including those who work in it, awaits “. The National Guarantor, concludes the note,” is aware of the difficulties in the launch of other aspects of the overall reform but it is certain that the urgency of the issue, of which suicides are a signal, and the words shared by the minister will induce particular attention to that the part relating to sanctions is implemented without any postponement “.
