Overview

• A portion of the roof gave way in the area known as the "seconda rotonda," with officials reporting no injuries to staff or inmates.
• Firefighters intervened and secured the site as the head of the prison administration, Stefano Carmine De Michele, arrived to evaluate urgent measures.
• The penitentiary department said parts of the facility have been declared unusable pending further assessments.
• Union leaders warned that the lack of casualties was due to chance and said the collapse highlights long-running structural fragility.
• Labor groups tied the episode to severe overcrowding—about 17,000 inmates above capacity—and criticized proposed prefabricated modules as inadequate.