At the Juvenile Penal Institute of Milan Cesare Beccaria in Milan there is a “very high voltage situation” after seven boys escaped on Christmas day. This was declared by Donato Capece, general secretary of the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Syndicate, who also communicates in a note that several agents were allegedly “intoxicated” by the fumes generated by the fires started by the prisoners following the escape. Let’s see what’s happening at Beccaria prison.
How the escape took place and why it also involves three adults
There was no plan worthy of an action movie behind the escape from the Beccaria prison, but the exploitation of a construction site that had been going on for a long time which allowed the seven inmates first to open a gap in the penitentiary fence and then to climb over the boundary wall, at via Calchi Taeggi. Watching them at that moment there was only one guard who was distracted with a ruse.
This is how seven prisoners escaped on Christmas afternoon, two of whom were traced thanks to searches by the police. Among them there are also three boys between 18 and 19 years old; a fact that might surprise, considering that it is a juvenile prison, but as Gennarino De Fazio, secretary general of the UILPA prison police union also explained, in the past there have been “not very prudent choices, such as raising the limit age permitting detention in juvenile facilities”.
The riots
Unfortunately the Christmas vicissitudes of the Beccaria prison didn’t end with the escape. In fact, it seems that some inmates have started riots in the penitentiary which resulted in fires set inside the cells. Several objects on fire, including some mattresses, were then thrown into the courtyard and the smoke that was released would have intoxicated some of the prison officers, who were taken to hospital in non-serious conditions; not only that: an entire department would be unusable and without light.
De Fazio noted that: «Many of the problems affecting prisons are also found in penal institutions for minors. In particular, the cases of assaults on operators, riots and, as in this case, evasion are on the increase».
And among the causes of these phenomena he cites the indifference on the part of politics towards prison realities, in some of which the conditions of the prisoners can reach the limit of humanity. The worrying figure of suicides in prison in 2022 is perhaps no coincidence: 79, the negative record of the last ten years according to a survey by the National Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty.
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