Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

July 23, 2018

Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions

Analysis Opinion

Europe Mental health Italy

Only vendetta and no justice in the Five Star Movement - Lega’s governing contract for Italy

May 23, 2018

Italy: challenges ahead

Report

Pre-trial detention Europe Foreign prisoners Health Overcrowding Activities Italy

The opportunity of a reform approval is now lost. Read Antigone’s full report.

April 18, 2018

Italy: beyond the bars - how rugby is reforming Italian prisoners

News

Italy

Italian rugby’s governing body, Federazione Italiane Rugby (FIR) has introduced rugby in 15 prisons across the country.They might live behind bars, but rugby has given prisoners in Italy a new-found freedom.

March 22, 2018

Italy: Fatma Bucak's best photograph, a teenager in a Turin prison about to be freed

News

Italy

“He had been sold a vision of paradise and found himself in jail. His release was four days away – he didn’t know if he’d survive outside”

December 15, 2017

Italy: bars on the windows, laughter between the lines

News

Topic Italy

An Italian nonprofit organizes soccer matches inside the country’s prisons in an effort to foster healthy relationships between inmates and their children.

October 11, 2017

"Bedridden with a prison fever" — Marcello Dell’Anna (VI)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“Human nature is not always beautiful on the outside – far from it – but it can become horrible within empty walls.”

October 4, 2017

Marcello dell'Anna (V)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“Every day, I fight against any risk of collapsing”

July 10, 2017

Italie : une association LGBT franchit les murs de la prison

News

Europe Italy

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April 24, 2017

Italy offers a glimpse of the international concern over violent extremism in prisons

News

Violence Italy

During a phone conversation intercepted by Italian police, one prison inmate’s wife told her husband in no uncertain terms how incarceration was changing him for the worse.

April 17, 2017

34 Tunisiens y sont détenus : voyage au cœur de la prison italienne de Rebibia

News

Africa Europe Italy

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April 10, 2017

Marcello dell'Anna (IV)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“I am trapped in my memories, stuck on images from the end of the 80s…”

April 4, 2017

Marcello dell'Anna (III)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“All my best. I go back to prison the day after tomorrow. Warm greetings, Marcello”

March 21, 2017

Marcello dell'Anna (II)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“My letters tell my life in prison. A life punctuated by infinite time that causes someone like me to suffer both physically and mentally…”

March 7, 2017

Marcello dell'Anna (I)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“I have been detained constantly for the last 24 years. I am doing out a life sentence…”

November 3, 2016

Vatican : mille prisonniers attendus au premier « jubilé des détenus »

News

Europe Italy

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October 7, 2016

L'Italie regarde ses prisons en face

News

Europe Italy

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September 14, 2016

Italy : the "torture room" in Poggioreale prison

News

Torture Violence Italy

“Room Zero” is known as one of the worst places to be sent if you are an inmate of the jail in Poggioreale, Naples. Officially this room is an isolation room; unofficially, “Room Zero” is a torture chamber. An investigation has been launched into the crimes allegedly committed by 23 people (22 pris…

May 4, 2016

Italy: govt launches jail suicide plan

News

Suicide Italy

Justice Minister Andrea Orlando on Wednesday said launched a plan to stem prison suicides, which he called a “worrying and intolerable phenomenon”.

April 14, 2016

Italy : despite prison reforms, system is in crisis

News

Italy

Bollate, a prison near Milan, is unlike any other : it is a model jail that attracts visitors from all over Europe, keen to learn from its policies of rehabilitation and reinsertion into active life. It has workshops, and even stables. But it is the only one of its kind in Italy. The national situa…

January 17, 2016

Italy decriminalizes obscene acts, other minor crimes to unburden justice system

News

Justice Italy

Italy decriminalized a long list of minor crimes on Friday, from obscene acts to blunders by cannabis researchers, to ease pressure on an overburdened justice system that ranks among the least efficient in the world.

August 11, 2015

Italie : l'île-prison où les détenus sont aussi vignerons

News

Europe Italy

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