2023-08-11 18:13:49
Time.news – One inmate of Nigerian descent43 years old, Susan John, she let herself die of hunger in the Turin prison. The requests to eat by the doctors and the staff of the prison police were of no use. The news was given by the independent prison police union Sappe, through the voice of the regional secretary of Piedmont, Vicente Santilli. “Although the timely intervention of our prison service officers unfortunately did not prevent the prisoner’s death,” he comments.
The inmate was found dead in the bathroom in the women’s section by a prison police officer. It was monitoredreport the same sources, both at a health and visual level in the sense that the his cell was under video surveillance. She had ended up in prison as part of an investigation into the exploitation of child prostitution. The autopsy will determine whether she died due to the consequences of prolonged fasting or for other reasons.
According to Santilli, the woman finished serving her sentence in October 2030 and is dead last night around 3, in themental health joint where it was confined. The death was ascertained by the medical and paramedical staff of 118. The woman, who entered prison shortly after the middle of last July, had immediately refused to take food.
Neither the management nor the guarantor of the Turin prisoners were aware of the difficulties and of the ongoing hunger strike. According to Sappe, it would have been precisely the abstinence from food that crushed her behind bars, reports to Time.news Monica Gallo, guarantor for the rights of prisoners in the Piedmontese capital. “I spoke to the management this morning and I was told that it was not knowledge of the situation and I also knew nothing about it. None of the other inmates had reported her situation to me, as usually happens. She was an ‘invisible'”.
The woman allegedly began to refuse food when she was transferred to Turin from another prison. She was in the ATSM (Mental Health Protection Section) ward, reserved for those with psychiatric problems.
The Sappe trade unionist represents that “in Piedmont there are 13 prisons out of the 189 national ones. The regional regulatory capacity established by decree by the Ministry of Justice would be 3,999 prisoners, but the last official census (as of 31 July 2023) counted 4,036 prisoners , which confirmed that Piedmont is among the regions of Italy with the highest number of prisoners. There are a total of 160 women prisoners while the restricted foreigners are around 1,600”.
The lawyer: why didn’t they hospitalize her?
Attorney Wilmer Perga, Susan John’s lawyer wonders why her client has not been hospitalized, going ‘beyond’ her refusal. “On July 6, the Cassation rejected our statement and confirmed the sentence. She was present in the courtroom. I asked her companion if, when they went home to pick her up and take her to prison, she had had any particular reactions – is the story of the legal to Time.news -. No particular reaction apart from the desire she expressed to the police to go to Nigeria. A week ago an inspector of the judicial police called me to tell me she was worried because she wasn’t eating. Two, three A few days ago the prison director received a call expressing her concern about the prolonged fasting”.
According to the expert Turin lawyer, “my client needed to be treated. She wasn’t engaging in a ‘political’ battle, she simply didn’t eat or drink and therefore she was considered as a patient to be treated. We recall that Cospito, at a certain point in his strike, was hospitalized.”
Moreover, the woman was in a ward intended for prisoners with psychiatric problems. “I didn’t know this – continues Perga – so one could also have thought of a tso. Why wasn’t she hospitalized? It seems incredible to me…Yet I really appreciated the interest, very rare in these cases, of the director who told me he called. Then I don’t know what happened but we’ll go through with it”.
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