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ITALY awaiting trial and the city ..... PAY!

The rank of the Italian prisons, jails on an international scale of the European and world civilization is evident in the rearguard and the guarantee of a just penalty.

The numbers speak for themselves, scoring record a negative way for our country: a total of 68,527 detainees are, while the regulations are only 44,612 beds.

A figure for the 206 Italian prisons, where, we recall 43.7% of prisoners are still 15,223 without conviction and good people are waiting for the first trial (Source: Association of Antigone). Numbers of this magnitude had never been recorded since the war.

an intolerable situation, that all leaders and political leaders should focus, trying to put some kind of resolution, placing it as the cornerstone for the future of Italy's civil prison.

According to the police union Italian penitentiary detention facilities have been reduced to mere deposits of life, a depressing picture ...... institutions are structurally inadequate for the new prison standards; cells in many cases without showers, in other cases, the bathroom does not go beyond a sink and a bidet to be divided into many. Old buildings, which are resource, but do not lend themselves to interventions of structural change.

health care in many cases affected by the same local health authorities, for their serious difficulty to assume responsibility for prison health, with the result that very often, are denied or delayed with unacceptable terms, including the clinical examinations easier. All this undermines the health of prisoners, of whom, he points out, nearly half of them being drug users or members of the heterogeneous area of \u200b\u200bconsumption of drugs, very often not diagnosed. The very fact underestimate the phenomenon of drug addiction, leads to the hypothesis that, throughout the year, there are a number of admissions of drug users of around 50 000 people: since the latter is estimated by health professionals and not by official statistics.

To this we must add the shortage of civilian staff (educators, psychologists, mediators) and the lack of staff is alleged by the unions of the body of the prison, which has about 43,000 employees.

backwardness and degradation, which they attribute to them a more three-layer first, that of deaths by suicide in prison, by inmates, but also the guards. A report

sullla LIFE infringed, what emerges from it.

On the cost side then € 113 is the average daily cost of a prisoner, and 7.36 the average daily cost for its maintenance (meals, hygiene and rehabilitation treatment.), For a total of 120, 36. A shocking figure if compared to the existing approximately 23,915 inmates in excess , burden on the State and indirectly out of the pockets of citizens through taxation continue.

But not all. Besides the damage, the trick!

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has already condemned Italy to compensate a Bosnian prisoner for moral damages suffered due to the overcrowding of the cell, in which he was imprisoned for several months in prison in Rebibbia.

As in Italy the prisoners living in overcrowded conditions are almost all, the State may have to pay 64 million euro in compensation.

This consideration requires the search for a political solution and puts permanently outlaw the current management the prison system.