Overview

• Inmates seized prohibited areas and set fire to the recreation room, sending smoke through the second floor.
• Six prison officers were hospitalized for smoke inhalation and one superintendent was struck in the face with a head butt.
• Rieti prison holds 493 detainees in a facility built for 295, highlighting severe overcrowding.
• The penitentiary is short of 56 police officers, representing a 32 percent staffing deficit that unions blame for eroded security.
• Fns Cisl Lazio and SAPPe have demanded concrete reforms including expanded personnel, better conditions and amnesty measures for short-term inmates.