The prisons Italian are at their limit and this weekend the situation was again evident in a juvenile prison known for its violent episodes in the past, the center Cesare Beccaria of MilanThere were strong riots and attempts at drain which were finally calmed down on Sunday morning.
In incidents that Italian media describe as “revolt“On Saturday night, fierce clashes broke out between guards and young inmates. Some of them set fire to the mattresses in their cells and some tried to escape in what the newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ describes as an “attempted escape” drain mass”.
Four of them managed to escape from the premises until they were caught hours later. There were also a total of eight injured, and one had to be taken to hospital for medical attention.
According to the digital ‘Il Post’, there was a fire which had to be controlled by the firefighters and up to five ambulances had to be sent to the center. At the same time, security forces surrounded the perimeter of the prison and closed its surrounding streets in the face of attempts by drainon another night of riots that repeats a dynamic of violent incidents that has been repeated in recent months.
A dozen days ago there was another revolt in the same jailas well as in early June, while in June a major riot occurred after two inmates escaped and were only found several days later.
Also, in a case that caused controversy level national13 Italian prison police officers were arrested last April on charges of abuse, torture and one case of attempted rape of minors in the Cesare Beccaria.
In addition, eight other officers were suspended from their jobs as part of an investigation launched by the Prosecutor’s Office in 2022.
The prisons Italian are in precarious conditions and in a state of overcrowding of prisoners limit that in recent months has been leading to violent conflicts in many prisons.
This week there was another incident involving a hundred prisoners in the jail of Regina Coeli, in the centre of Rome.
The prison emergency has worsened this summer due to high temperatures and excessive prisonersand 67 inmates have already committed suicide so far this year.
In the prisons Italian There are at least 14,000 more people than the number of beds, a rate of overcrowding of 130.60%. In a quarter of prisons this rate is higher than 150%, according to the association for the rights of prisoners. prisoners Antigone.
