Prison and drugs begin to cross the desert

On June 26th we presented our 14th White Paper on Drugs and confirmed the data that resulted from the prison debacle and justice crisis. The number of prison populations is increasing, and the number of people defined as drug addicts is increasing (15,509 out of a total of 38,125, equivalent to 40.7%), to which 9,961 people, equivalent to 26.1%, have entered prison on charges of possession and drug trafficking. drugs.

Reports to the governor of drug use, from 1990 to today, exceed one million four hundred thousand units, of which one million are for cannabis.

Among the 56,196 detainees present as of December 31 of last year, 19,283 were violators of the drug law, equivalent to 34.3%, and 16,845, equivalent to 30%, were drug addicts.

A terrifying picture, exacerbated by the lack of data on minor events, which would give the exact measure of the severity of the matter.

The deputy of Montaruli of Fratelli d’Italia announced a proposed law contrary to that of Riccardo Magi, which had already been debated in the last legislature and reintroduced with n. 71, to toughen penalties for minor misdemeanours.

The number of community actions, including probation at trial, is increasing, with the class feature of separating those who are originally deserving from those who enter prison and are destined to remain there until the last day of their sentence. The field of criminal oversight has expanded, and even in the worst cases of dystopia, it could not have reached nearly one hundred and forty thousand prisoners, as today many people are subjected to criminal procedures, imprisonment, and so on, for various reasons.

What should we expect in the future? The ads are disturbing.

They will bark at the moon, but the threats are strong and Under Secretary Delmastro’s proposal to transfer drug-addicted prisoners to closed communities like San Patrinano looks like blackmail for democratic and unsalvageable structures.

Proposal to amend Art. 27 of the Constitution, which represents a core value of the concept of punishment. The motion was resubmitted by Rep. Cirelli with a refusal. 285 (in the last legislature, the first signatory was Giorgia Meloni) and subordinates the re-education function of the governing to undefined and undefined needs of social defense.

Alessandro Margara, with the biting irony he showed on some occasions, wrote Article 27 as he had imagined Minister Angelino Alfano wanted it: “Penalties can consist of treatments contrary to the sense of humanity and must be limited, without any other purposes, to containing a sentenced to the necessary time to carry out the punishment.” He certainly could not have imagined that the third paragraph would be written, not in jest, by the party representing the prime minister: the just punishment of the offender for the offense committed and the public and private prevention of the offense and should aim, in co-operation with the convict, to his re-education. The law defines the limits of the purpose of re-education in relation to other purposes and the needs of social defense.”

The creation of “Social Reintegration Homes”, other small structures entirely under the responsibility of the local administrations to house those sentenced to imprisonment of less than twelve months, may be with the dual purpose, to reduce overcrowding (there are more than seven thousand people in this condition) and to truly achieve community justice It is not rhetorical or realistic. This proposal is also presented in the House of Representatives under No. 1064.

As it was once said, we know everything, and we need to act.