After the countless complaints of of voluntary organizations , the associations of citizens rights, directors and agents prison, beginning in January, the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi had recognized that "the situation in prisons has become intolerable 'and announced at the end of the first Council of Ministers of the launching "of a plan to deal with the emergency action." Seven months have passed since then, the prison population has meanwhile reached a historical record of 68,027 prisoners (according to the Sappe ), the number of suicides reached 32 share, another record. However, that plan has been blocked by pain benches to the majority.
now the possibility to pass the bill Alfano, giving the house who is serving a year sentence, still hanging by a thread. The problem is not political at this point (at least not alone), but more closely statement. To decide, in fact, if further discussion in the legislative (and avoid a shift in classroom would require too much time), the House Judiciary Committee expects to know whether or not there is funding for the recruitment of new police force, a measure sought by the League as a condition for giving its consent. Found the point of political mediation, therefore, must now also find the money to make a decision that the Minister of the Interior, the Northern League's Roberto Maroni , called it "worse than a pardon." If, however, do not jump out of the money, you can difficult to reach a conclusion before the summer recess of parliament work. A shift that would have dramatic consequences for the lives of real people in prison, as already reported in June by Caritas Ambrosiana, which, while expressing some reservations on certain points, was asked to approve the decree in a hurry and give Alfano a bit 'of relief to a situation which "threatens to explode with the heat of summer." A drama stressed, more recently , even by the Pope himself during his meeting with representatives of prisoners of Sulmona, the prison which has the dubious distinction of suicides behind bars .
hard to imagine, however, that "the government of making" to do something for the prison before the parliamentary go away to sea. To give, however, a sign of vitality, the minister announced the establishment agency employment for prisoners and former prisoners. The initiative already experienced in Sicily will be extended to other four regions (Campania, Lazio, Lombardia and Veneto), involve 6 thousand prisoners with a late penalty of up to three years. They were initiated and the training and work outside the prison social cooperatives in 1100, 150 enterprises, 550 have a contract with employees. Too bad that record, such as those announced in reality there are already different, and so far have served little purpose.
