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dcterms:Date	"2011-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Detention conditions in the EU (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111214.29.3-453-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-14-Speech-3-454-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Niccolò Rinaldi2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Italia dei Valori - Lista Di Pietro (2009-07-14--2014-04-14)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; ALDE (2009-07-14--2012-01-26)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-09-08--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am honoured to have been the promoter of this plenary debate. I believe that European prisons suffer from at least two problems. Prisons will always be prisons. I do not believe that the solution lies in emptying them, but they must cease to be those dark corners of rights and European responsibilities. The first is that it is quite difficult to have the instruments of European democracy enter these institutions. In prisons, there are human rights abuses and people’s dignity is mortified, as concerns both detainees and those who work in the prisons, such as the warders. Prisons are overcrowded, a sign of lack of investment: people are crowded in together and the door is shut. There is little knowledge of prison regulations, while copies of them should be distributed and clearly understood by all. There is abdication of the principal role of re-education that prisons should play, not least because employment for detainees is no longer facilitated inside prisons. There is little transparency and hardly any opening to citizens, schools and non-governmental organisations. Budget cuts threaten essential services and the training of personnel and there is an overall lack of interest by the media and politicians. I now go on to the second point. Personally, as part of the initiative that Marco Pannella launched in Italy, for the past three years, I have visited two prisons on 15 August – the day that is most symbolic of holidays – and I have been struck by the absence of the European dimension within them. There are no exchanges of good practices, and few are the moments of contact between the staff and operators from the various European countries. I therefore applaud the publication of this Green Paper, which may cast light on a series of issues: how to improve mutual trust and, naturally, detention conditions; how to associate detention conditions with European regulations on preventive detention, the European arrest warrant, the conditions of minors, the power to inspect, the right to visits by families and all the activities of cultural mediators, which are necessary. The Council is present today and many answers depend on it. We are dealing with a test of civilisation, that is, of European identity."@en1
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