Mattarella: "the Suicides in Prison Are a Defeat of the State"

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The head of state has received the prison police at the Quirinale: at the center of the intervention the overcrowding and the lack of staff

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The President of the Republic met the Head of the Department of the Penitentiary Administration and a representative of the Penitentiary Police

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TURIN – President Sergio Mattarella made this point just yesterday in his speech at the Quirinale Palace, declaring that prison suicides are a "true defeat for the State." Yesterday afternoon, a 62-year-old inmate at Turin's Lorusso and Cutugno prison committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He was found around 6:30 PM on the ground floor of Block E. Immediate assistance from staff on duty was unsuccessful, as they were unable to save t…

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A protester holds a sign denouncing suicides in Italian prisons (Symbolic image) (Photo by PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP via Getty Images) Getty Images President Sergio Mattarella denounced the critical conditions in Italian prisons. In a speech today, he called each inmate suicide "a defeat for the State, to which the lives of prisoners have been entrusted." The Head of State emphasized the gravity of the situation for the Penitentiary Police and for pri…