Prisons, Allow 20 minutes of phone calls each day to the prisoners, instead of 10

the ROME - The Association Antigone has written to the President of the Council of Ministers, Giuseppe Conte and the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, to ask that every prisoner may call for 20 minutes to your family, in front of the 10 minutes a week as provided by the legislation of the penitentiary system. “The request – stresses Patrizio Gonnella president of Antigone – is justified with the emergency coronavirus that is bringing important limitations, even in a prison environment. The inmates are afraid and live with the anguish, the loneliness. In many prisons are not allowed interviews and visual are prevented access to the volunteers.

You compress the rights of detainees. The directions issued by the Prison Administration are used to prevent the spread of the epidemic, even in these places. Are not homogeneous on the national territory. "However, we are witnessing – yet specify Gonnella - to a compression of the rights of detained persons. In some cases, inevitable. Just for this – added the president of Antigone – we urge the government to grant a 20-minute phone calls per day (which would have positive effects on the illicit use of mobile phones), to activate everywhere Skype for distance interviews.

The dialogue, the family prevents tragic gestures. to increase the possibility of phone calls, and Skype is a measure with very little effort organizational would be able to protect that contact with the affected external which is critical for the people incarcerated, and that many times proved to be essential in the prevention of tragic gestures. In the same way - concludes Patrizio Gonnella - we think it is useful to encourage the granting of measures of detention and custody, which will reduce the pressure on the prisons and on the operators, for all those who are at the end of the sentence, and have made a positive path to prison. We ask in this sense that the judiciary monitoring grand opening. Finally, we evaluate also the measures of incentive to the staff at the prison engaged in a time so hard and provides for the distribution of prevention guidelines to all prisoners”.

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