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January 17, 2021: More and more prison emergency in our country.

An inmate has escaped from the Rebibbia penitentiary in Rome.

He is a 41-year-old Italian.

Searches are underway by all law enforcement agencies, including helicopters.  



"Around 16:30 an Italian inmate of about 40 years escaped from the prison in Rome Rebibbia taking advantage of the shortage of staff. Most likely he climbed over the network of promenades and then climbed and climbed over the boundary wall. The prisoner in question, from the first information, it would seem to have committed crimes against the person ".



This was declared by the general secretary of the SPP Syndicate Aldo Di Giacomo.

"A dangerous criminal has managed for the umpteenth time to escape without great difficulty from the prison of Rome Rebibbia", he continues.

"This umpteenth escape reveals all the criticalities of a prison system that is increasingly in difficulty both due to the nature of the structures and the serious lack of personnel and adequate alarm systems. It is certainly necessary to invest in new structures and in the recruitment of staff. of the penitentiary police. Over the last decade, governments have invested insignificant amounts and this is the concrete result of today ".  



"As we have denounced several times, the emergency connected to the coronavirus pandemic in prisons, also characterized by the riots in March last year, added to the pre-existing emergency from remote times and made up of structural inefficiencies", is the comment by Gennarino De Fazio, secretary general of the UILPA Penitentiary Police, who explains: "Technological deficiencies and outdated, organizational deficits and, above all, inadequate staffing of the Penitentiary Police which, according to a study conducted by the Department of the Penitentiary Administration, amounts to over 17 thousand units. " 



"If we add to this the absences from the service for Covid-19 and for precautionary isolation, it is quite clear that if the system still holds up to some extent, without being exactly shattered, it is only due to the daily and commendable individual sacrifice of each operator, of different professional skills ".