“Serve the presence of psychiatrists even at night”
“L’Emilia Romagna it is among the regions where the rate is highest suicides in prison“The regional guarantor of benefits says so Roberto Cavalieriafter yet another case that happened, in the late evening of Tuesday 16 August, a Piacenza, where a detainee, arrested for common crimes and pending the definition of his detention situation by the surveillance magistrate and the health authorities, took his own life. A few days earlier, on 10 August, a man of Moroccan nationality had hanged himself with a sheet in the prison house of Rimini.
“This very serious fact – says Cavalieri – leads to 53 the number of suicides in Italy in the current year and 4 those that occurred in prison in Emilia-Romagna “. To avoid these tragedies, Cavalieri urges the penitentiary institutions” to collaborate with the Volunteering allowing the presence in prison even in the evening“. On the health front, he adds,” it is then desirable to activate a service for the presence of children psychiatrists even in the evening and at night, providing for interventions in these time slots that are not only connected to emergency situations “. This, continues the Guarantor,” to overcome what appears to be a purely administrative application of anti-suicide protocols, which would not seem to guarantee the expected results”.
“Serve one taking charge of the person, it is necessary to sensitize the prison police and introduce new figures. We need social figures inside the prison, increase the connection with the affects. Most of the time, if there is a difficulty, we tend to remove, such as for example, taking away from the person everything with which he could get hurt. Instead we should add ”, he said to our microphones Mauro PalmaPresident of the National Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty.