Riot in Regina Coeli prison: seven officers and three inmates injured

Unrest yesterday in the Roman prison of Regina Coeli: seven prison officers and three inmates were injured and had to seek emergency care. This was announced by Osapp - Autonomous Union Organization of the Penitentiary Police, adding that damage was reported in the fifth section of the institution and that 11 inmates were then transferred. "Seven prison officers in the emergency room in a single episode cannot be considered yet another accident" attacks Leo Beneduci, general secretary of Osapp. "Even less so when everything takes place in a department intended for prisoners" who "require particular precautions in terms of management and safety".

"A thousand inmates concentrated in an institution with half the places"

For Beneduci, "When over a thousand inmates are concentrated in an institution with just over half of the necessary places and the penitentiary police operate with hundreds less units, we cannot continue to entrust the maintenance of the system exclusively to the professionalism, sacrifice and physical safety of the policemen". And he adds: "The emergency is what cannot be foreseen. Here, however, the problems are known, reported and continually recur. We need staffing, prevention, effective management of problematic prisoners, safe structures and decisions taken before the riots and attacks, not after."