The Prison In Italian Free Download
Phillipp Schneeberger
Background: Incarcerated women are a minority in the Italian prison population. The lack of prevention and awareness of HIV infection and the lack of access to treatment make the treatment path difficult.
Background: HCV infection among vulnerable populations is currently a major issue for HCV elimination program. Incarcerated people and people who inject drugs (PWIDs) are key population groups potentially at high risk for HCV infection. Our aim was to evaluate an extended program of screening, staging and treatment in Italian prison settings.
Methods: Patients from eight prisons in five different Italian Regions were enrolled. HCV saliva test (QuickOral Test) was offered. Data on infection awareness and illicit drug use were also collected. Positive patients underwent early HCV RNA evaluation, staging and prescription on DAAs treatment. The definition of PWID was based on self-reported injecting drug use extracted from medical records (injecting drug use during the previous six months).
Conclusions: Among patients, PWIDs had a lower awareness of their HCV-Ab positivity and had previously received less treatments. Saliva test allowed to achieve a more rapid result, stage, and treatment approach. More than 80% of patients underwent treatment, without differences between PWIDs and non-PWIDs. Linkage to care during prison transfer allowed to avoid unplanned interruptions and offered more chances to reach the end of treatment.
When Associated Press reporter Patricia Thomas was in Capanne prison outside Perugia, Italy, Sunday and saw Knox, \"They were passing food through the bars so the inmates could eat inside their cell, which seemed sort of sad to me.\"
Thomas provided a description of Knox to \"Good Morning America\" today of a young, timid woman who was so scared after her murder conviction that the female prison guards physically held her during the night to comfort her.
Knox, 22, also appears to be trying to not give in to despair and told Thomas she has applied to work in the prison laundry room to help pass the time and wants to complete her college degree while in prison.
Knox was studying languages at the University of Washington and was spending a semester in Perugia in November 2007 when her roommate Meredith Kercher was murdered. Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted earlier this month of sexual assault and murder in Kercher's death. Knox was sentenced to 26 years and Sollecito was given 25 years. A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede, was convicted in an earlier trial and given a 30-year prison sentence.
\"The first thing she said was she was scared,\" Thomas said. \"It was clear that she was scared about spending most of the next 26 years in prison. She said that she is counting on her family and her lawyers, who have told her to be tranquil, to be serene, and to be hopeful. And so, she said that's what she's trying to do.\"
Since being sent to Capanne prison a small controversy erupted when an Italian member of Parliament visited Knox and later said that Knox told him that her trial was \"correct.\" Knox's family strongly disputed that she ever said that.
It consists of the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners in the prison population on a single date in the year (or the annual average) and the percentage of the total prison population that pre-trial/remand prisoners constituted on that day.
It should be noted that the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners fluctuates from day to day, month to month and year to year. Consequently the above figures give an indication of the trend but the picture is inevitably incomplete.
It consists of the number of female prisoners in the prison population on a single date in the year (or the annual average) and the percentage of the total prison population that female prisoners constituted on that day.
The female prison population rate is calculated on the basis of the national population total. All national population figures are inevitably estimates but the estimates used in the World Prison Brief are based on official national figures, United Nations figures or figures from other recognised international authorities.
The figures below give an indication of the prison population trend in the years up to 2000. They supplement the more recent figures that are shown at the foot of the Overview page and in the graphs below.
Gabriele Villone of Italy was sentenced to 28 months in prison for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
His attempts seem to be working. Like the U.S., the majority of Italians in prison land back in prison once they have been released, nearly 85 percent, says Frescobaldi. Programs like these, though, greatly diminish that number. Of those who have gone through his winemaking program, none who have been released have ended up back in jail.
Italy's prisons face serious overcrowding problems, with 53,637 people occupying space for 47,000, according to the annual report of Associazione Antigone, an Italian NGO working to protect human rights.
"We also have an over-representation of people detained for drug offences, compared to other European countries. So a different approach to drugs in the legislation and in police practises, but also in social policies, could make a difference in prison overcrowding," Scandurra added.
"The situation is very bad because the prison system is still partially in lockdown mode. The social activities are very limited, access of external staff, volunteers, etc, is still limited in most of the prisons. Contacts with the families are limited, and this has been going on obviously since the start of the pandemic, so the situation is very heavy on the prisoners," Alessio Scandurra, coordinator of Antigone's observatory on prison conditions, told Euronews.
Italy's justice minister Marta Cartabia has asked for the country's department of penitentiary administration (DAP) for a report on prison suicides to understand the causes and how to prevent future deaths.
A video showing guards brutally beating inmates at a jail near Naples last year was released in June, pushing Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi to seek for the prison's system to be reformed.
Fifty-two prison guards have since been arrested. But according to Scandurra, some of the guards seen on the video are not under investigation as it was impossible to identify them due to face masks and helmets.
"Other measures, like the quality and the efficiency of the video recording system that proved to be so important at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison, are not always there in many other facilities. We have ongoing investigations of similar cases, in the similar period, for the same reason. But there was no video recording. Either the prison was not equipped or the system wasn't working. And therefore we don't have this very important evidence."
"We then made -- and this is the second front -- a very specific choice: we have reserved 30% of our budget on prison buildings for interventions on treatment spaces. We believe that creating opportunities for inclusion, making life less idle within institutions, increasing job opportunities, creating hope on the 'outside' is also decisive for intervening on these gestures, which do not always have the same cause. they may be different, but an intervention that tends to improve living conditions can only improve the well-being of the prisoners and also those of the staff."
On Monday 28 June 2021, 52 people, including prison police officers and officials, were the target of provisional orders issued by the preliminary investigations judge of Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the context of the alleged violence that took place in that prison in Campania on 6 April 2020, during the protests of inmates following the news that one person had tested positive for COVID-19 within the walls of the institution.
The whole thing was filmed by the prison's video surveillance system and the videos were disseminated by the press. A total of 117 people are under investigation, including doctors, prison officers and the regional governor Antonio Fullone.
Behind the UNESCO sites and steep history of Italy lies the shady, illicit workings of the mafias, who have been miraculously operating since the 19th Century. When caught, they end up behind bars among the approximately 55,600 prisoners in the country. If you have ever wondered about life in an Italian prison cell, you have come to the right place.
Per day, each adult inmate and each minor inmate receive 3 meals and 4 meals respectively. The menus typically include freshly harvested fruits such as cherries and figs and vegetables such as aubergines and tomatoes. It is also believed that the adult prisoners would receive a bottle of around 250 ml of wine.
One special prison that has its restaurant whipping up a tasty spread is located in Volterra, near Pisa. These Fortezza Medicea restaurants are open to the public, though making reservations can be a pain in the neck. To even be considered for a reservation necessitates a pass of a two-month background that you have to first go for. Still, it is worth the effort to see the tenacity displayed by convicts who seek to hone their culinary as well as soft skills while running the restaurant.
What is even more impressive is that almost every Italian prison is equipped with a library. Despite the dilapidated nature of some of these libraries, prisoners can have a place to study and delve into the amalgamation of knowledge that greets them in the form of books. Although the books are typically in Arabic and Slavic, more and more books are beginning to have other languages to cater to a wider inmate audience.
On another note, there is a huge incentive for, namely, Calabrian prisoners to turn into bookworms. That is, each book they read during their imprisonment knocks off their sentences by 3 days, and for each prisoner, a limit of 48 days off per year applies just for reading books. This ingenious idea was coined by Mario Caliguiri, a cultural chief of the regional council. If the government ends up approving the policy, it will be introduced to the entire nation.
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