“As head of the Penitentiary Administration, I can only be saddened by the fact that a woman had to give birth in prison. Fortunately, this is a story that has ended without any criticality and now both the mother and the baby are fine ”. This is what the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration writes in a note, Bernardo Petralia, commenting on the story of the young inmate who gave birth in the women’s prison of Rome Rebibbia.
Following the first investigations immediately ordered by the Head of the Dap, it appears that the woman, in the institute since June 23, on August 1 had presented a request for revocation O replacement of the precautionary measure. On 7 August, he reports a note from Ministry of Justice, the Judicial Authority reserved the right to decide pending a report from the health department of the institute on the inmate’s health conditions; request that was solicited again on 9 August. The following day, 10 August, the Health Area sent the report which was not followed by any other provision of the Judicial Authority. On August 18, the inmate was sent for urgent hospital checks, from which he returned to the institute on the same day.
“I want to clarify that no responsibility can be placed on it to the prison who worked, within the limits of their responsibilities and competences, to speed up communications with the Judicial Authority and the competent Health Authorities, in relation to the request for revocation of custody advanced by the detainee “, adds the Head of the Dap .
According to the first reconstructions, in the night between 30 and 31 August the inmate was in her own room infirmary department of the penitentiary institution, assisted by the doctor and the nurse on duty. When the first pains appeared and the urgency of hospitalization was ascertained, the doctor would have gone away to contact the hospital and request the immediate intervention of an ambulance. Just at that juncture the inmate would have given birth. “The Dap is taking action to reduce the number of inmates-mothers in prison. Currently there are 11 in the nursery sections of prisons and in those with reduced custody and 13 minors present with them. As already anticipated by the Minister Cartabia, the Department is also working with the Pope John XXIII Community in order to obtain for them a different and better accommodation outside the prison facilities“, Concludes Petralia.
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