Mattarella: 'Stopping suicides in prison is a social emergency'

"The problem of suicides in prisons is dramatic and has not shown signs of stopping for too long: it is a real social emergency that we must question ourselves about in order to put an immediate end to all this. It must be done out of respect for the values ​​of the Constitution, out of respect for your work and the history of the penitentiary police". This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, meeting at the Quirinale with the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration and a representative of the Penitentiary Police.

Your functions are "a complex and articulated panorama. Functions that you carry out in accordance with the Constitution and that are not limited to surveillance. I know that every day you try to fulfill your commitment with sacrifice and professionalism: a commitment made even more difficult by the worrying conditions of the prison system that is marked by a serious and now unsustainable condition of overcrowding".

This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, when meeting the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration and a representative of the Penitentiary Police at the Quirinale.

"Places of detention must not be transformed into a training ground for new crimes, a training ground for crime, or places of no hope, but must be effectively aimed at the recovery of those who have made mistakes. Every recovered prisoner is equivalent to a security advantage for the community, in addition to being a constitutional objective." This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, meeting the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration and a representative of the Penitentiary Police at the Quirinale.

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, received a delegation of the Penitentiary Police Corps at the Quirinale this morning, on the occasion of the 208th anniversary of its establishment. After the speech by the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration, Stefano Carmine De Michele, President Mattarella greeted those present. This is what can be read in a note from the Quirinale.