Police in Rome on Monday arrested
two prison guards and an inmate as part of an investigation on
corruption in prison.
The two penitentiary police chief assistants at Rome's
Rebibbia prison are accused of doing favors for a detainee who
promised money in exchange.
Investigators said the year-long probe unveiled "significant
elements" allegedly proving that the two officers, who worked at
the prison's G9 section where the inmate was held until 2015,
had accepted money in exchange for favors.
They said the pair opened bank accounts for the payments,
which were however never made by the detainee, and were also
allegedly promised a job or a stake in a pizza place the
detainee wanted to open after serving his time.
Favors allegedly included communications between the
detainee, a 50-year-old from Siracusa, and his family and
bringing him anything he needed in jail or on the job after he
had been placed on a prison work release program.
The man, who is currently jailed in Cremona, is also accused
of evading in May 2015 while he was on the work release program
in Rome after he did not return to Rebibbia and was found a week
later at his wife's home in Cremona.
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