Does prison kill more than crime?

A 49-year-old remanded in prison in Korça died this morning in the Central Reanimation Department of the Medical Center. Aurel Sabriu met with his father and immediately after the meeting he lost consciousness in his room.

Before Aureli, Afrim Shaqiri, who was serving his sentence in Fushë-Kruja prison, was sent without signs of life from the prison to the city's health center.

Andrea Bregasi suffered the same fate, who died at the Fushë-Kruja Health Center due to a cardiac arrest.

Aureli, Afrimi and Andrea are not the only ones, the list of prisoners who often do not receive proper treatment in prisons and go to a tragic end is long!

Unfortunately this is FACT!

It is enough to remember the case of Fotaq Zaharija, to whom the court of Starsburg gave the right a few years ago, when he denounced "keeping in inhumane and degrading conditions in prison that endangered his life" and provided him with a compensation of 15 thousand Euros .

The FACT is that many of the prisoners who lost their lives could be alive today, if the court had used the other alternative punishments provided by the Penal Code, always in proportion to the crime.

Yesterday, the State Police proudly announced that the number of prisoners in the month of August alone was 560 people. Arrests ranging from those for serious crimes, to 15-year-old hashish "busters" to those who occupy public beaches by setting up umbrellas.

All, without any change, have been sentenced to prison!

But is this normal for a democratic society?

Is our penal system harsh in terms of sentencing regime?

Should the Courts require an individualization of punishments, the use of other punishment alternatives, the use of special rehabilitation and reintegration centers?

In quite a few cases in our country, the pain of the victims, the popular aversion to the type of crime, but also the media pressure to give court decisions that are not based on the law have been used as arguments.

The Rule of Law is not built by imprisoning citizens, a measure that has been proven throughout history that has never produced positive effects, but by maintaining proportionality, rationality and equality in sentencing.

"Hate crime, pity the criminal" is the famous aphorism that was found on the doors of European courts in the 1700-1800s, an expression from which even judges in our country should turn their attention./VoxNews