It is possible Cicci escaped the chair by agreeing to testify, but then again maybe not. My guess is they put him in isolation to get him to identify the "buffas" which would be a break in omerta.
"We have prison guards on the payroll don't we?"
What if one of those guards ruled Willie's death a suicide?"
"It might work... "
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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