Violent protest in the Avellino prison. The protagonists were three Maghreb inmates who devastated the ground floor section. They barricaded themselves inside and destroyed the electrical panels and surveillance cameras with bars, making the department unusable.
They also cut their arms and swallowed batteries. There was a lot of tension. The protest was based on the request to be transferred to other penitentiary institutions closer to their families. The prison officers managed to restore calm. The events took place this morning. The news was released by trade union organizations.
"Even the presence of the supervisory magistrate did not bring them back to wise advice. Only after the telephone contact with the provider of the Penitentiary Administration, the protest subsided - explains - the national councilor of Osapp, Emilio Fattorello who "reiterates once again the need for administration interventions to face the problems that still persist in the Avellino prison. One thing - emphasizes Fattorello - is to talk about units administered only on paper, another is to talk about a really operational force reduced to the bare minimum, unsuitable for managing a higher level institution like that of Avellino which has exceeded the threshold of 600 inmates with an overcrowding of about two hundred users".
The regional secretary of Sappe, Tiziana Guacci also intervenes on the episode. "The conditions of the Avellino prison continue to be alarming, like those of the other institutions in the Campanian district, due to overcrowding and lack of staff. In the last period - says Guacci - a considerable number of inmates have been transferred from other institutions which has dramatically increased the prisoner population. To worsen the situation is the presence of a decrepit section ex art. 32 that has serious repercussions on the internal security of the department in addition to the chronic shortage of staff".