Designing Your Own Tombstone

Prison Pistoia


In reference to the meeting held Monday, May 17 with representatives of the Province and the third sector on the subject on the prison in Pistoia, in a personal capacity and driven solely by the desire to render justice in some way to meeting many inmates within the institution, I would like to clarify some of my comments and to submit proposals. I would describe the representatives of the Province the situation in more detail in order to understand the magnitude of the problem which requires urgent action. The prison

Pistoia suffer like all the problem of prison overcrowding: 140/150 held on a tolerable capacity of 80.

On the island where the prison used pass those who are awaiting confirmation of the arrests in prison and even the inmates subjected to disciplinary measures, unlike the meaning of the word (insulation) and then held for one, there are regularly in each cell 2 / 3, in tight spaces.

Within the section of the Institute, 1st floor, the cells are about 6 square meters and are limited in the true sense of the word, 3 - 4 held, when the capacity would be provided for up to 2 people. On the 2nd floor there are cells that would be for 3 / 4 held at the maximum and there are regularly placed sixth, and other cells on the same floor, which would be for a capacity of 5 / 6 held at most, there are regular 9 .

For those who are admitted to the inner workings, even if there is a shift system workers are still a few prisoners are allowed, (except for those who acts as cook, assistant cook and extraordinary maintenance) only for a few hours daily and rewarding job is not so much as brush, clean showers, make up bags of dirt, etc.. Who does not work, the most, are predominantly in the cell. 2 outputs are only allowed outdoors for one hour each: one in the morning and once in the evening.

I leave you to imagine the hygienic conditions, the danger for the spread of diseases, the lack of adequate medical care and specialist visits. The only drugs that never fail to have the drugs, but that abound ... ..

for each prisoner are allowed six interviews per month with their families.

The drama is real and as proof of this, as it were needed, it is important to remember the attempted suicide of a Tunisian national, fortunately, failed for the timing of the prison officers, a resident of Pistoia, with a history of drug problems, and that few months before he lost his wife who committed suicide in prison Sollicciano.

At this stage we see the entrance of detainees that Father Alex Zanotelli people define "sbolognata", with strong challenges to health, psychological and psychiatric increasingly often that if vigesse the rule of law, would be inserted in other places more suitable for treating diseases that arise. Combined with this condition of strong discomfort are often the same defendants, with severe penalties, low-crime social dangerousness: theft of a shirt, "theft" of packets of sugar in a bar, selling counterfeit clothes (this 'last prisoner, unemployed with a wife and infant son was sentenced to a term of more than 3 years). White collar workers outside and inside unfortunate, but that's another story ....

Now splitting the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice and other institutions, from the Provincial, I think it on the prison should focus on strengthening, promoting and supporting rehabilitative actions (plus how would our Constitution), moving in this direction:

- To promote, encourage and support educational and cultural activities such as theater, music, painting and whatever (the deviance remembered as Pasolini is fought first and foremost with the culture);

- Support and enhance the valuable work of voluntary prison also takes care of those inmates physically (from the purchase of clothing for those without relatives and no receipts to support economic, etc. ..). Rehabilitation also involves the protection of personal dignity;

- Promuovere attività formative rivolte ai detenuti e ove possibile, tenendo conto degli spazi messi a disposizione dall’istituto, svolgere una tipologia di corsi che abbiano una maggiore rispondenza con il mercato occupazionale;

- Prevedere che almeno una volta/due al mese, un operatore del centro inpiego, faccia l’iscrizione dei detenuti che ne facciano richiesta nelle liste dell’ufficio di collocamento. Questo dopo i due anni di disoccupazione consente all’azienda che volesse assumere, degli sgravi contributivi significativi (legge 407/90). In quasi tutte le altre Province viene già fatto, non si capisce perché a Pistoia non venga praticato.

- Sostenere anche finanziariamente those actions aimed at providing employment to prisoners who may be admitted to the alternative measures (such as probation and foster care social services). This type of integration views the work as an essential part in the path of the prisoner rehabilitation both in the type of professional skills, and those so-called transverse (capacity in the management of personal relationships, the times, adapt gradually to the rhythms a job that requires, etc. ..). Gozzini Law, which regulates the alternative measures is a law that must be defended because it works (to the extent that it also supports economically), recording very low percentage of recurrence of prisoners admitted to alternative measures. Occupied by about 14 years of employment of disadvantaged persons (Article 4 of Law 381/91), I can confirm that the type of disadvantage related to the state sentence is one that produces more positive results in terms of employment, at the end of the path.



Antonio Sammartino

Senior Auditor Post Audit Salary

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FACTS ... .. DIRTY AND NUMBERS OF POVERTY 'IN ITALY

Poverty little interest to the media, because it is something serious and worrying leaves no room for gossip. And also little interest in politics, that of government as the opposition. It would be very useful and healthy employment, because the "picture" tells us a lot of poverty on the profile, not only social but also political and moral of our country. It allows us, without doubt, a better understanding of this Italy, in many ways more "opaque" as it moves deeper, and less decipherable with the traditional categories of political analysis. Just take a look at the 2008-2009 Report prepared by the Commission of Inquiry on Social Exclusion to realize this. From this report it is clear that the basis upon which the entire social pyramid, the largest hard-core, which should hold everything else, is fragile and marked by multiple forms of "deprivation". We live with your head in the phantasmagoric world of opulent consumption (we expectations from wealthy consumers), but places his feet, and the whole body, on the waterline. The numbers, especially the comparisons, the comparison with the rest of Europe, are there to remind us. It is not only of those 8 million "poor in relative terms (relative poverty is defined as the threshold for the monthly cost of under € 999.67 € for 2 persons), nor of those 3 million" absolutely poor "( that is unable to access goods deemed essential to achieve a minimally acceptable standard of living), the ISTAT census, but it is also about those 18,896,000 people who can not technically be defined as poor (to the level of income or monthly spending), but that poverty or the threat of poverty and bring all the marks of which 4 million coming later this month with great difficulty and could not face an unexpected expense of 700 € without going "under"; 3.5 million of that in the 12 months preceding the interview had difficulties to meet the costs of everyday life, six million registered as vulnerable, often owners of the apartment where they live, with availability of cars, TV, household appliances, but still in difficulty.
The crisis has also begun to bite on the flanks far considered to be relatively "strong" labor market: the Tito ¬ lari for a permanent position, Workers car ¬ names, on the same clerical work and sometimes even managerial, often covered by unemployment benefits but subject to a "weight" normally acceptable (one or two minor children or looking for work, a family-reliant, the need specialist care) and has become untenable in the event of layoffs, or even the inability to provide extraordinary work ¬ veterinarian.
policies to combat poverty adopted by this government: the buyer's card (social card), the family bonus, the abolition of ICI on the first home bonus and the electric light of the facts are insufficient. Taken together, it is estimated that the four innovations of the system tax-benefit determine, jointly, a reduction in the proportion of absolutely poor households by 4.27% to 3.89% (less than 0.4 percentage points). About 91,000 families in a million out of poverty assoluta.La spread of relative poverty falls by less than half a percentage point, from 17:55% to 17.07%. The inequality is reduced, albeit modestly.
resources that measures of total direct government absolutely poor households amounted to 192 million euro, which constitute a small support on the whole than would be necessary to bring all of these families above the absolute poverty line ( 3.86 billion). The impact of the paper povertà assoluta è significativo ma buona parte dei poveri assoluti non ottiene questo trasferimento. Se si vuole raggiungere un risultato apprezzabile, appare inevitabile un'ulteriore revisione dei criteri di accesso (Questa limitata penetrazione della carta acquisti tra le famiglie povere in senso assoluto dipende in primo luogo dai criteri anagrafici di selezione, che escludono chi ha più di tre anni o meno di 65 anni. Sono fuori dal suo campo di applicazione, ad esempio, le famiglie numerose con figli non in piccolissima età, tra le quali è noto che il disagio economico è, in Italia, particolarmente diffuso).

A fronte di questa situazione risulta ancora più vergognosa la spesa colossale, oltre mezzo miliardo di euro, che il governo italiano ha invece utilizzato tra la Maddalena e l’Aquila per i tre giorni di vertice del G8 (il vertice più caro della storia). Per dotare l’isola sarda di alberghi, sale conferenze, porti e giardini erano già stati bruciati 327milioni e 500mila euro. Fondi che ora gli atti dell’inchiesta della Procura di Firenze rileggano in chiave diversa, descrivendoli come il banchetto di una “cricca” tutta presa dalla spartizione di appalti senza concorrenza e senza trasparenza. I magistrati hanno arrestato i protagonisti di quelle opere, ai vertici della struttura di Bertolaso che ha gestito l’affare. Tutte le opere della Maddalena sono diventate inutili quando il premier ha deciso di cambiare scenario e move the meeting in L'Aquila, in the rubble and the homeless. All this at a very high price: other 184 000 000 974 000 € and burned for three days of Abruzzo. In all, in fact, over half a billion: the contribution of Italian taxpayers at the top most foolish, expensive and unnecessary in recent history. And as the allocation of the works of Mary Magdalene, also at the list of works for the Eagle, surprises abound. There are, first, the usual suspects of the limited space of Palazzo Chigi that among the privileged clients of all international events are always available. How Relais Le Jardin, which for over a million euro was awarded the provision of catering services for banquets organized for heads of state. Except that Relais is not a company any: it belongs to the family of Stephen Piccolo, married Mary Read, daughter of Gianni Letta, undersecretary to the all-powerful presidency of the Council.
In a region that had cried at least 308 deaths from the quake and had to return a decent life to 80,000 homeless, gadgets for the big events Paiano attacks. Neglect of silver bowls Bulgari nice tribute to the heads of state, it goes from 60 pens edition only "provided by Museovivo at a cost of € 26 thousand and used only by the leaders to make their valuable autograph treaties. Then there are the provision of Poltrona Frau for the seats of those three days and costs € 373mila; floral arrangements to 63 thousand €; the protective film for coating lifts (9 thousand), the notes provided by the renowned Pineider clipboards at a price of € 78 000. Another 23 million euro spent on the intervention of the Guardia di Finanza non-commissioned officers in the school to create environments of the summit included the renovation of 1,090 rooms in which they stay the leader and their staff. The rooms have been decorated at the top, providing them with TV, telephones and every kind of comfort. Restoration generally enhance property investment. But here is different. The barracks where the summit took place is not owned by the state: the old man wanted by the Berlusconi government securitisations to raise fresh money for the public purse, has been sold in 2004 and now belongs to a syndicate of banks and financial institutions such as Real Estate SGR SpA, IMI, Barclays Capital, Royal Bank of Scotland and even Lehman Brothers. They pay the state each year 13 million euro in rent. A substantial fee, which in 2009 has enriched the benefits resulting from the Pharaonic works are completed by the alleged Berlusconi - Bertolaso \u200b\u200bstructure. Consuming tasks in the face of such property did not let soften. Not only that, at the G8 have been completed a full restoration of sites, namely the return of salt from summit to the task of military school cost another 4 million euro.
So much for earthquake victims who continue to protest at L'Aquila the shortcomings of reconstruction and want to remove yourself from the rubble.

At this point the questions and incazzature are many. We can at least say that anyone who identifies with Christian values, Catholic and non-believers and therefore, can not claim, nor vote, those characters and that the Church has followed a scandal (as well as judicial and sometimes illegal), when relationships with these men of power ?
And the ordinary worker, the poor, the retired, as they do not understand that these characters can never protect their interests, but these will be more or less blatantly ripped off or simply ignored? To us the social card, in the bowls of silver Bulgari ... ..

Antonio Sammartino - New Action Party of Tuscany
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