Suicide emergency in prisons, President of NGOs on hunger strike for 25 days: “And I will continue until the European elections”

Rita Bernardini, leader of Hands Off Cain and candidate for United States of Europe: "Deaths in state custody"

ROME – “There have been 38 suicides confirmed since the beginning of the year, and another 52 have died from illness or causes not yet ascertained: deaths in state custody, in silence general”. This is the complaint of Rita Bernardini, president of Hands Off Cainand candidate in the European elections with the United States of Europe list in the Islands, Sardinia and Sicily constituency, commenting < strong>the data released by the Council of the Union of Criminal Chambers.

“ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR 25 DAYS”

“I have been carrying out a hunger strike for 25 days and I will continue until the elections, because the political class, but above all the institutions, are incredibly distracted with respect to the issue of prisons: they are deaf to all the alarms that come from many quarters, not only from the world of associations, but also from the local criminal chambers, as well as from the President of the Republic. When, in 2015 and 2016, I worked on the General States of criminal execution, after an enormous amount of work involving various working groups that worked on all aspects of criminal execution, an exhaustive draft law was produced, for the whose implementation only lacked the implementing decrees, which fell on deaf ears, because even at the time it was on the eve of the elections”.

THOSE WHO COUNTS THE SENTENCE IN THE ITALIAN PRISONS HAS RECURRENCE OF 70%

“Those who govern” concludes Bernardini “do not worry about operating outside of the constitutional provisions and the judgments of international courts: they can continue to act illegally. It is enough to visit an Italian prison to realize this account: some rules of the penitentiary system in places of detention become waste paper. Those who serve their sentences in prison, in fact, have a very high recidivism rate, around 70%: this occurs within a bankruptcy system which costs citizens billions of euros every year”.

THE CONTROVERSY OVER SOVEREIGNTY

On the controversy triggered by Claudio Borghi’s statements against the President of the Republic, Bernardini underlines “Article 11 of the Constitution provides that Italy accepts limitations of sovereignty within its territory if necessary to the pursuit of peace and justice between Nations, through agreements with them” in line, therefore, with the initial wording of the article which reiterates that ‘Italy repudiates war. “The limitations – explains Bernardini – do not only concern the regulatory activity of the State, but also the jurisdictional and administrative one, so that citizens can be subjected not only to national authorities, including foreign ones. Here I would like to remind Borghi that European regulations already exist such as the self-executing directives which for some time now, in various areas, have been producing direct effects on our legislative, economic and social system”.