L’INTEGRAZIONE FUNZIONALE PSICHIATRICO-FORENSE NELLA RISOLUZIONE DELLE “LISTE D’ATTESA”: L’ESPERIENZA DELLA REMS DEL VENETO

The transition from the old model of the Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals to the reformed system of the REMS (territorial residences forthe execution of detention security measures) has produced a decrease of about half the number of places available in Detention SecurityMeasures. Predictably, in these 4 years of operation of the new system, there has been an imbalance between demand and availability ofthese places, thus creating the phenomenon of so-called “waiting lists”. These are subjects already assigned to a custodial measure, whichthey await in prison or in the territory until a place is freed in the REMS.In this paper we will examine how the Veneto regional governmental health system has developed strategies to implement care pathwayswithin the detention security measures circuit during these years. First of all through the drafting of a Memorandum of Understandingbetween the judicial system and the mental health protection system. The first, partial data on the flows indicate the possibility of dealingwith the sustained request for the implementation of custodial Security Measures, as required by Law 81/2014, through a continuouswork to improve the regional network that involves all the interested parties.