Union, 'with over a thousand inmates in the Turin prison collapsing'

As of yesterday, 1,608 inmates were present in the Turin prison, a number which, according to Osapp, represents a record since the pardon in 2006. The autonomous prison police union reports a situation that is now collapsing, with over two hundred entries per month and a shortage of more than one hundred units in the role of officers and assistants.

"We are now totally adrift - declares Leo Beneduci, general secretary of Osapp, in a note -. All this happens in the most deafening silence of politics and institutions".

According to the union, overcrowding, lack of space and deterioration of the environments are fueling growing conflict within the prison, with a succession of critical events that put the safety of staff and inmates at risk.

A few weeks ago, Osapp made an appeal to the political representatives of the Municipality of Turin and the Piedmont Region, from all sides, inviting them to visit the institute and meet the operators.

"Apart from a few exceptions, the others remained totally immobile and inert. An inertia that we also find at the level of the regional and central administration, while the situation inside the prison continues to worsen", says Beneduci.

The lack of staff, the union reports, forces agents to work particularly demanding shifts. "The staff is subjected every day to inhuman shifts and continuous psychophysical stress. A condition that seriously puts the health of the operators and the safety of the entire institute at risk. We cannot continue to ask for ever greater sacrifices from workers without guaranteeing adequate staffing and sustainable operating conditions", concludes the general secretary.