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From today's Corriere

a disabled person died in prison in Sanremo
mental age and weighed 186 pounds three years

Panicci Fernando was 27 and he finished serving his sentence on December 31, 2011 . It was 100% invalid, suffering from mental retardation, epilepsy, semi-paralyzed, unable to speak properly. For first time in 19 years in jail for the theft of three leather footballs in a gym

CARLO CIAVONI

SANREMO - thought as a child of 3 years, weighed 186 pounds and was 27 years. His name was Fernando Paniagua. They are the essential features of yet held died of "natural causes", this time in the prison of San Remo, but that was part dell'incredibilmente long line of more than 500 severely disabled people locked up in cells of the Italian prison system. People for whom the expression "right to health" is, neither more nor less, like a sound without any sense. This brings to 171 detainees died in 2010, including 65 by suicide, the other for "natural" causes, according to the most careful observation of narrow horizon ¹ , volunteer organization that monitors always the life of about 65 000 inmates in prisons, forced into a space for not more than 43 000 people.

Only minor offenses.

Fernando Paniagua had finished serving his sentence on December 31, 2011. 100% was invalid, suffering from mental retardation, epilepsy and semi-paralyzed. He had entered prison for the first time in 19 years, for theft of three leather footballs in a gym, and since then had been repeatedly arrested for minor offenses which probably was not even aware of it, because his understanding was precisely that of a child of three years, unable to move his hands, to speak correctly and check the physiological stimuli. Yet despite the obvious mental impairment, was arrested and closed cell, since the first time, when I load up a van three leather footballs made in the square in front of a sports center in his city.

could not lose weight. Paniagua was born in Frosinone, and was probably killed by a cardiac arrest. His health had long been criticized because of obesity. Despite the interest of health, had failed to lose weight. On Christmas Day, had suffered a sudden illness. Yesterday morning, his cell mate called him, but to no avail. The deputy prosecutor Antonio Politi has ordered an autopsy to be performed.

disabled inmates in prison. The figure, provided by the Department of Prison Administration (DAP) covers the motor and sensory disabilities and has remained at December 2008. The majority of prisoners with disabilities is in Lombardy (121), followed by Campania (96) and Lazio (51). A Fossombrone, in Marche, 28 detainees are visually impaired. In December 2008, in Italian prisons there were 483 inmates with physical or sensory disabilities. This is the most recent data on the presence of disabilities in prisons held by the Office of the Department of Prison Health Services. An identical survey for 2009 is missing: "The cards were intended for the compilation also sent last year to the directions of the prisons - explain the office - but the investigation has not been realized. "

The primacy of the Lombardy. The Italian region with the largest number of detainees appears to be disabled Lombardy At the end of 2008 in prisons in the region were held 121 inmates with physical and motor disabilities, of which 13 to 82 in San Vittore and Opera. Among the regions most "crowded" with 96 detainees also Campania, Lazio (51 ), Marche (34, 28 of which were held in the structure of impaired Fossombrone) and Tuscany (31). Below Sicily (34), Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta (23), Veneto, Trentino and Friuli Venezia Giulia (20), Puglia (17), Emilia-Romagna (16), Sardinia (16), Calabria (14), Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Liguria (each with three prisoners) and, finally, Basilicata (1).

incompatibility with the prison. Illness and disability are not incompatible with detention. Indeed it often happens that those who cross the threshold of the prison will bring about the results of an injury or an illness that reduced his motor skills or mental. "There is no specific legislation in Italy for prisoners with disabilities," said Frank Morelli, a narrow horizon. "One of the normative references to disability in jail - said Morelli - is Article 47 b of the penitentiary, on home detention": under subsection 3, "a term of imprisonment not exceeding four years, although remaining a constituent part of a longer sentence, and punishment of the arrest, can be expiated in a home or in another private home or in a public care, assistance and hospitality, where the person in particularly serious health conditions that require constant contact with local health centers. "



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