Dr. Louis Morse is director of prisons from 1969 to 2005. In his book My Life inside. Memories of a director of a prison he summarizes a lifetime of hard work and achievements of practical and theoretical aspects.
I am firmly convinced that its text deserves wide dissemination and discussion: especially now that people are talking about security ...
Meanwhile, Our has never ceased to consider the inmate a man.
will say: oh, nice discovery!
Error: bad situation now prevailing in the prison system and the adversarial attitude of the Italian institutions and society as a whole, well, everything proves that the inmate is considered all but a man.
Think of the many suicides, the poor sanitary conditions, overcrowded cells, violence etc.. Precious
so why competent and rational, the analysis carried out by the author. Denouncing empty legislativi e culturali, mancanza di coordinamento tra i vari settori dell’amministrazione penitenziaria, penuria di investimenti, tendenza alla faciloneria, emarginazione dei “vecchi” direttori ed allentamento della catena di comando.
I suddetti motivi determinano un accentramento di poteri nelle mani di persone inadatte a gestirli ed insieme un meccanismo che definirei di costante de-responsabilizzazione ; così, chi è più responsabile e di che cosa ? Il ricorso alla violenza sul detenuto passa così per una sorta di panacea, quando è l’esatto contrario.2
Tipico il caso di chi rimproverava un subalterno per aver picchiato un detenuto extracomunitario dove poteva esser visto; non perché aveva commesso un reato…3
Invece l’A. ha sempre improntato la sua azione al recupero umano e civile del detenuto, conformemente ai dettami della Costituzione che dice: “Le pene non possono consistere in trattamenti contrari al senso di umanità e devono tendere alla rieducazione del condannato.”4
Il Nostro seguì sempre tali dettami. Infatti, su sua iniziativa si ripristinò (a S. Gimignano) un’ officina falegnami ed una sarti.5 La dimensione lavorativa salvò molti detenuti dalle miserie della cella fissa e li fece sentire non dei reietti, ma persone ancora utili a sé stesse ed alla società.
Ma nonostante la qualità di alcuni products eg. tailoring, after the opening of the new prison (place Ranza) who had to arrange for equipment maintenance let go to ruin. Nor was this the only case of shocking neglect by the authorities ...
When it was decided that the prison of St. Gimignano (whose historical and architectural importance is well signposted from Nostro6, this sensitivity is not very common in many officials) should have been built elsewhere, the new rose in a basin. Well
: from above, the new structure could end up under the fire of any gang, gang or gang of terrorists! The Casale Monferrato
prison was reserved for young offenders, missing then the characteristics of the maximum security prison, he sent the Ministry R. Curcio, the ideologue of BR! 7
The list of problems "given away" to the Morse and his collaborators who should avoid them (they are not keeping the lambs ) would be long and not without implications farcical.
Eg.: The guard of the penitentiary Pianosa handful of simple light bulbs, the administration has not provided her. It is "obvious" with candles that it was necessary to subtract carcere8 chapel, it seems a film Totò ...
the light, as well as to sanitation and not only, ensured often at his own expense ours!
In 40 years of service he had to deal with escapes, rioting prisoners, others killed by police sharpshooters, settling accounts, mobsters, terrorists and even suspicion on themselves by their superiors. This led him to a devastating internal crisis, which did not have fatal consequences for miracle.
Today he relies on the pages of his book something of its complexity and drama, deserves (repetita iuvant) wide dissemination and discussion.
I also think that the spirit of the text is that of the final lines of a letter written by his son Delio Gramsci.
Well, Gramsci wrote a story that perhaps Delio concerned because he liked "the men living" and everything about "all men as they join together in society and working and fighting and improve themselves can not like more than anything else." 9 But
knowing the irony of Morse, I would prefer to blind humorously.
Well, he remembered as one of his superiors recognized decades after the serious mistakes committed against him, it shows some satisfaction. However, the soldier
Quote Sturmtruppen strip, commenting on the award of the Iron Cross to mind: "What a beautiful soddisfazionen!" 10
Note 1) L. Morse, My life inside. The memoirs of the director of prisons, Infinity editions, Rome, 2010 .
2) L. Morse, My life inside, op. cit., pp.57-60 .
3) L. Morse, op. cit., p.59 .
4) Italian Constitution, Part One, Rights and Duties of Citizens, Title I, Article . 47.
5) L. Morse, op. cit., pp.38 and 83-85 respectively .
6) Ibid., pp.28-29.
7) Ibid., P.99 .
8) Ibid., P.128 .
9) A. Gramsci, Prison Letters , c. R. Uccheddu, app. S. Calledda, Davide Zedda Editore, Cagliari, 2008, pp.131-132 . Emphasis added.
L. Morse, op. cit., p. 193 .
I am firmly convinced that its text deserves wide dissemination and discussion: especially now that people are talking about security ...
Meanwhile, Our has never ceased to consider the inmate a man.
will say: oh, nice discovery!
Error: bad situation now prevailing in the prison system and the adversarial attitude of the Italian institutions and society as a whole, well, everything proves that the inmate is considered all but a man.
Think of the many suicides, the poor sanitary conditions, overcrowded cells, violence etc.. Precious
so why competent and rational, the analysis carried out by the author. Denouncing empty legislativi e culturali, mancanza di coordinamento tra i vari settori dell’amministrazione penitenziaria, penuria di investimenti, tendenza alla faciloneria, emarginazione dei “vecchi” direttori ed allentamento della catena di comando.
I suddetti motivi determinano un accentramento di poteri nelle mani di persone inadatte a gestirli ed insieme un meccanismo che definirei di costante de-responsabilizzazione ; così, chi è più responsabile e di che cosa ? Il ricorso alla violenza sul detenuto passa così per una sorta di panacea, quando è l’esatto contrario.2
Tipico il caso di chi rimproverava un subalterno per aver picchiato un detenuto extracomunitario dove poteva esser visto; non perché aveva commesso un reato…3
Invece l’A. ha sempre improntato la sua azione al recupero umano e civile del detenuto, conformemente ai dettami della Costituzione che dice: “Le pene non possono consistere in trattamenti contrari al senso di umanità e devono tendere alla rieducazione del condannato.”4
Il Nostro seguì sempre tali dettami. Infatti, su sua iniziativa si ripristinò (a S. Gimignano) un’ officina falegnami ed una sarti.5 La dimensione lavorativa salvò molti detenuti dalle miserie della cella fissa e li fece sentire non dei reietti, ma persone ancora utili a sé stesse ed alla società.
Ma nonostante la qualità di alcuni products eg. tailoring, after the opening of the new prison (place Ranza) who had to arrange for equipment maintenance let go to ruin. Nor was this the only case of shocking neglect by the authorities ...
When it was decided that the prison of St. Gimignano (whose historical and architectural importance is well signposted from Nostro6, this sensitivity is not very common in many officials) should have been built elsewhere, the new rose in a basin. Well
: from above, the new structure could end up under the fire of any gang, gang or gang of terrorists! The Casale Monferrato
prison was reserved for young offenders, missing then the characteristics of the maximum security prison, he sent the Ministry R. Curcio, the ideologue of BR! 7
The list of problems "given away" to the Morse and his collaborators who should avoid them (they are not keeping the lambs ) would be long and not without implications farcical.
Eg.: The guard of the penitentiary Pianosa handful of simple light bulbs, the administration has not provided her. It is "obvious" with candles that it was necessary to subtract carcere8 chapel, it seems a film Totò ...
the light, as well as to sanitation and not only, ensured often at his own expense ours!
In 40 years of service he had to deal with escapes, rioting prisoners, others killed by police sharpshooters, settling accounts, mobsters, terrorists and even suspicion on themselves by their superiors. This led him to a devastating internal crisis, which did not have fatal consequences for miracle.
Today he relies on the pages of his book something of its complexity and drama, deserves (repetita iuvant) wide dissemination and discussion.
I also think that the spirit of the text is that of the final lines of a letter written by his son Delio Gramsci.
Well, Gramsci wrote a story that perhaps Delio concerned because he liked "the men living" and everything about "all men as they join together in society and working and fighting and improve themselves can not like more than anything else." 9 But
knowing the irony of Morse, I would prefer to blind humorously.
Well, he remembered as one of his superiors recognized decades after the serious mistakes committed against him, it shows some satisfaction. However, the soldier
Quote Sturmtruppen strip, commenting on the award of the Iron Cross to mind: "What a beautiful soddisfazionen!" 10
Note 1) L. Morse, My life inside. The memoirs of the director of prisons, Infinity editions, Rome, 2010 .
2) L. Morse, My life inside, op. cit., pp.57-60 .
3) L. Morse, op. cit., p.59 .
4) Italian Constitution, Part One, Rights and Duties of Citizens, Title I, Article . 47.
5) L. Morse, op. cit., pp.38 and 83-85 respectively .
6) Ibid., pp.28-29.
7) Ibid., P.99 .
8) Ibid., P.128 .
9) A. Gramsci, Prison Letters , c. R. Uccheddu, app. S. Calledda, Davide Zedda Editore, Cagliari, 2008, pp.131-132 . Emphasis added.
L. Morse, op. cit., p. 193 .
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