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That should be the case: Ticino’s prisons are reaching their limits

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No more free places: the Ticino prison La Stampa near Lugano is full. Archive image

The prisons in Ticino are full. An emergency plan provides for seven additional places in Lugano and Mendrisio, after which the southern canton will have to transfer to prison places in other cantons.

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The situation has deteriorated in recent weeks, the director of the cantonal prisons, Stefano Laffranchini, confirmed a report in the newspaper “Corriere del Ticino” to the Keystone-SDA news agency. The situation in Ticino’s prisons has been difficult for a year.

This leads to full prisons in Ticino

According to Laffranchini, the problems in the prisons are related to the peripheral location of the canton: drug trafficking, cross-border theft and problems related to migration flows are “typical features” of a transit and border canton. And these led to full prisons.

Laffranchini continued to explain whether the contingency plan will be used in the near future. If the additional cells were to be occupied soon, Ticino would most likely have to rely on help from the cantons of the Criminal Concordat of Latin Switzerland.

The women’s section in Lugano is not ready yet

The cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Valais, Neuchâtel, Geneva and Jura belong to this concordat. In principle, all cantons would be eligible for prisoner transfers, Laffranchini noted.

Prison conditions in Ticino are also difficult for women. Last year, the Ticino government provided a loan for a women’s ward at La Stampa prison near Lugano. Eleven places are being created especially for female prisoners, including a cell for a mother with a child. However, the department will not be ready until the end of 2025 at the earliest. (SDA)

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