La polizia penitenziaria tra sovraffolamento carcerario e burnout: il dibattito interno

• Main Author: Marco Baudino
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Società Italiana di Vittimologia 2014-07-01
• Series: Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza
• Online Access: http://www.vittimologia.it/rivista/articolo_baudino_2014-02.pdf

This article tackles the problem of operational and professional management of Italian Prison Police Corps starting from the present precarious situation of the Italian prison system. It analyses some factors such as prison overcrowding (with an examination of recent data); the shortage of prison staff; the organisational pathologies of a closed system; the individual and organisational burnout, paying particular attention to the issue of suicide within the Prison Police corps. The article ends with a review of some articles published in the official electronic journal of the Italian Prison Police (“Le Due Città” – “The Two Cities") in order to understand the institutional debate over the problems of overcrowding, burnout, and suicide within the penitentiary administration.