Overcrowding in Italy's jails

(16 Oct 2009) SHOT LIST
Rome, September 15th 2009
1. Wide shot pan left ' Rebibbia ' penitentiary, Rome
2. Close up tower on prison walls
3. Tilt from sign reading ' G8 wing ' to prison corridor though bars
4. Wide prisoners entering G8 wing
5. Medium penitentiary police agent closing door
6. Close up key and corridor
7. Close up penitentiary police agent seen from cell peephole
8. Wide penitentiary police agents opening cell of the same size of the one condemned by the EU court in the Sulejmanovic case
9. Medium penitentiary policeman opening cell door
10. Tilt up from bars shadow to beds
11. Pull focus from close up bars to prison walls
12. Tilt down from window with bars to beds
13. Wide shot Carmelo Cantone, 'Rebibbia' penitentiary director, at his desk
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Carmelo Cantone, 'Rebibbia' penitentiary director:
"Our jail system is unmanageable. In Italy to combat crime there is a widespread use of detention, that is bringing a growing number of people in jail, while there is a reasonable capacity for only 45,000 inmates. Nowadays we are already detaining 20,000 in excess of that capacity."
15. Close up Cantone signing papers
16. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Carmelo Cantone, 'Rebibbia' penitentiary director:
"The European Court (of Human Rights) has reaffirmed a very reasonable parameter, which states that each inmate should have at least 3 square metres. But beyond this specific case and the fairness of the verdict, there is a wider issue, that the European court should address in all European countries and not only in Italy, because the data on overcrowding in jails of other western democracies such as England or France are the same - if not worse - than Italy's."
17. Wide shot ' Rebibbia ' penitentiary gate
18. Close up European flag
19. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Carmelo Cantone, 'Rebibbia' penitentiary director:
"It much easier and more convenient (for the authorities) to send people to jail, instead of facing deviance with alternative measures of control outside of jail."
20. Wide shot penitentiary football pitch through bars
21. Pull focus from bars to soccer pitch
22. Wide shot inmate Rocco D'Amato
23. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Rocco D'Amato, 33, detained for homicide:
"I've been living in a single cell for 9 years now. It is 2 and a half to 3 metres. It has a TV, bed and lockers to put you clothes in ".
24. Tilt up from close up hands to bars
25. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Rocco D'Amato, 33, detained for homicide:
" In the G12 and G9 judicial wings I have seen people sleeping six to a cell that was supposed to be for four people, in bunk beds. It can not be a liveable condition".
26. Tilt down from window with bars to toilet of cell of the same type of the one judged in the Sulejmanovic case
27. Policeman closing cell and walking off
28. Medium shot Vito Pollaci, long term inmate for bank robbery
29. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Vito Pollaci, long term inmate for bank robbery:
"The conditions in the judicial wings are not easy. Six people in one room, one toilet, hygiene bit precarious, depending on the room and room-mates".
30. Wide shot inmate passing through check point and agent opening door
31. Long shot through bars, inmate walking in prison corridor
32. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Vito Pollaci, long term inmate for bank robbery:
"Compared to other prisons, here in Italy, I believe that we can say conditions are not so bad, also for health care and other facilities".
34. Wide shot 'Rebibbia' penitentiary walls
35. Medium Simona Filippi, lawyer of the Prisoners' rights group Antigone
38. Medium prison door closing
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