Prosecutor Melillo: “No to early release for mafiosi and terrorists”

No to further sentence reductions for those detained for mafia and terrorism. This is what the national anti-mafia prosecutor asked today, Giovanni Melillo, to the House Justice Committee which is examining the bill with the new rules on the early release of prisoners.

“There is no overcrowding in high security”

“The increase in the benefit of granting early release from 45 to 60 days – observed Melillo – has no reason to concern prisoners for organized crime and terrorism crimes: in the high security circuit there is no problem of overcrowding “. Various critical issues expressed by the national anti-mafia prosecutor: “What is the point of increasing the duration of the sentence reduction for those who serve their sentence under home detention or in other alternative forms to prison? Who is the body that controls the existence of the prerequisite of benefit?”.

“A return to the past”

Regarding the point regarding the competence assigned to the director of the penitentiary institute for the granting of the benefit of early release, Melillo comments: “It seems to me to be a serious step backwards, we return to the idea of ​​administrativeization at the sentence reduction phase. remember times that we thought we had put behind us, in which the judiciary had no role or at least a marginal one in the processes of execution of sentences”.

The word to the judge

According to Melillo, the final phase of the execution of the sentence should be reserved for the final decision on the merits of admission to the benefit, a phase in which the judge could effectively present a complete picture of the prisoner’s behavioral path”.