Convict Escapes to Prison Not Wanting to Celebrate Christmas Home Alone in Italy
In the city of Frosinone in central Italy, a young man sentenced to house arrest escaped from his home to prison because he did not want to spend Christmas alone, Corriere della Sera reports.
Mario, 24, was under house arrest for petty crimes. But on Christmas Eve, without informing either judicial supervision or his own lawyer of his plan, he came to the gates of San Domenico prison in Cassino and asked to be arrested. He asked if he could spend the rest of his sentence in the company of other prisoners.
At home, the man felt very lonely. As he admitted, he had no one to talk to, and as Christmas approached, he felt worse and worse. "I'm alone at home, so I prefer to spend Christmas here," Mario said.
It is noted that the prison police called a military patrol, after which the man was taken back home.
"When we saw him, we were puzzled. We immediately called the police," the Cassino prison police said.
A military patrol took the young man away and returned him to house arrest in Frosinone. However, the man was promised to report to the magistrate in the coming days so that he could be heard and allowed to explain the reasons for his actions.
According to the prisoner, he will ask to be placed in a cell next time, as required by law.
He will be brought to court for escaping from house arrest.
According to Reuters, a prison in the Brazilian state of Santa Cantarina recently replaced its guard dogs with a flock of geese because they make loud noises when they hear someone trying to escape.
"We have electronic surveillance, personal surveillance... And, finally, surveillance by geese, which replaced dogs... It's very quiet at night. As you can see, even during the day it's very quiet here, and even more so at night... The space is conducive to this type of security with the geese," said Marcos Roberto de Souza, the prison director.
A flock of "guard geese" patrol the space between the prison's inner fence and its main outer wall.
Brazilian prisons have relied on geese to keep prisoners from escaping for at least 12 years. Back in 2011, São Paulo's Zibral prison made international headlines for using a flock of geese to alert guards to suspicious activity.