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March 11, 2020 "From today, in agreement with civil protection, also as a consequence of the extension of the so-called" protected area "to the whole national territory, tampons will be carried out for detainees transferred in various capacities, which add up to the operations of triage ". "Just yesterday the first supply of about 100,000 masks arrived, which are being distributed, primarily to operators who access from the outside".

Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede said this during the report to the Senate on riots in prisons. "We are working tirelessly in the context of a broader battle against coronavirus. The task force within the Ministry is preparing possible interventions to guarantee, on the one hand, the prison officers and, on the other, the prisoners". added Bonafede, "but we must remain calm and be united with an awareness. This is a difficult moment for the country, but it is our duty to clarify, all together, that the Italian state does not go back an inch in the face of illegality" .

In Modena "a large part" of the penitentiary "has become unusable" after the protests erupted "underlines the Guardasigilli in the Senate.

Chronicle of the revolt of Foggia
The revolt of the prison in Foggia was the only one rebuilt in detail by the minister, who thanked the prison police and all the staff of the prison administration for having "faced very difficult situations, putting their safety at risk". It began on the morning of March 9 with some inmates who, reported the minister, "set fire to sheets and mattresses and damaged furnishings inside the sleeping rooms". In the meantime, "about 200 prisoners, at that moment present in the walking courtyards in conversation with the commander, en masse entered the corridor towards the exit of the wards. During the journey they forced the gates between the sections favoring the exit of other prisoners and, after an attempt to reach the director in the meantime, an attempt failed thanks to the intervention of the prison police, they continued their action by unhinging the inner gate of the carriage door, they were able to overcome the resistance of the prison police and they went outside the perimeter walls of the institution in 72. Subsequently, thanks to the joint work of the prison police and other law enforcement officers promptly alerted, 56 of them were taken back to prison. "

Pharaoh: (IV): Remove DAP manager
"The head of the penitentiary administration department has very serious responsibilities," says Davide Faraone, leader of the Senate of Italia Viva, speaking in the classroom of Palazzo Madama. "What happened in prisons was predictable. If the prisoners had been made responsible for the measures, probably all this would not have happened. You minister would have had to anticipate what happened. You can't pretend nothing: you have to act on who was responsible, so we ask that the head of the Dap be removed ".