Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

November 28, 2022

Italia: 45 probed for 'torturing' Ivrea prison inmates

News

Europe Torture Violence Italy

Guards, doctors,functionaries and ex-wardens are under investigation

Source — Ansa

April 14, 2022

Italy: walling up madness

Analysis

Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Mental health Drugs Material conditions Italy

The Ministry of Justice oversees the prison system. The organisation of health care in prisons has been the responsibility of the National Health System (Servizio sanitario nazionale, SNS) since 2008. There are many prisoners with mental health problems. Read more

January 6, 2022

Italie : En prison, “la génération de mafiosi la plus cultivée de tous les temps”

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Culture Europe Long-term prisoners Activities Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

July 1, 2021

Italia: Italia investigará sus cárceles tras la difusión de un vídeo que exhibe las palizas de oficiales a los presos

News

Europe Torture Violence Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

June 29, 2021

Italia: 52 warders arrested over prison lockdown violence

News

Coronavirus Europe Protest Torture Italy

Italian police on Monday arrested 52 prison officers on suspicion of mistreating prisoners in quelling a riot sparked by a case of COVID-19 among inmates in the middle of the first virus lockdown last year. Naples police sent in special penitentiary police forces after the April 6 riot at the jail…

Source — ANSA

April 28, 2021

Italia: detenidos en Francia siete exmiembros de las Brigadas Rojas italianas

News

Europe Foreign prisoners Justice Violence Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

March 22, 2021

Italy: “political action is powerless"

Interview

Coronavirus Europe Health Protest Overcrowding Italy

The second wave of the pandemic hit prisons with overwhelming force. What can the authorities do? Read more

February 8, 2021

Italie: en prison avec des djihadistes, Cesare Battisti démarre une grève de la faim

News

Europe Discipline Material conditions Protest Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

May 11, 2020

Italy: government looks to reverse flood of mafiosi leaving jail over coronavirus

News

Coronavirus Europe Health Italy

ROME (Reuters) - Elderly mobsters recently let out of jail over fears they might catch the new coronavirus in Italy’s overcrowded prisons may soon be put back behind bars, Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede said on Wednesday following an outcry. Some 376 mafiosi and drug dealers have been allowed to…

Source — Reuters

April 23, 2020

Italian prisons: facing the crisis

Interview

Coronavirus Europe Justice Health Violence Italy

Mutinies after the suspension of family visits had a heavy toll on prisoners: 12 prisoners died in March. Prison Insider interviewed Antigone association about the management of the crisis by the authorities. Read more

March 17, 2020

Italy : Antigone calls for solution

Report

Coronavirus Europe Health Italy

The last weeks have been devastating for prisoners in Italy. The overcrowded Italian prison system found itself unprepared for the sanitary situation caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. Antigone is an Italian human rights NGO focusing on the penal and penitentiary systems. They monitored the situat…

Source — Antigone

March 11, 2020

Italy: revuelta en las cárceles italianas

News

Coronavirus Europe Health Protest Violence Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French, Spanish

March 11, 2020

Italy: seven dead in Modena prison riot, 20 break out of Foggia

News

Coronavirus Europe Health Protest Violence Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, March 9 - Seven people died as violent protests broke out Monday in 22 Italian prisons against coronavirus restrictions with many inmates asking for an amnesty due to the virus emergency.

Source — Ansa

January 27, 2020

Italy: l'Etat critiqué pour ses conditions de détention dans un rapport du Conseil de l'Europe

News

Europe Justice Material conditions Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

October 8, 2019

Italy: Europe court says Italy's hard prison regime breaches human rights

News

Europe Italy

ROME (Reuters) - A European court ruled on Tuesday that Italy’s tough prison regimes for mobsters and convicted terrorists who refused to cooperate with the justice system violated human rights and needed to be changed. Read more

December 26, 2018

Italy: un projet pilote pour prévenir la radicalisation des femmes en prison

News

Women Europe Religion Italy

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

Source — Yabiladi

November 7, 2018

Italy: imagine a colourful prison...

Testimonial

Europe Italy

Marco has been imprisoned for 16 years. He tells Prison Insider about a typical day as an inmate in Rebibbia prison, close to Rome. Read more

October 23, 2018

Italy : occupying time, occupying one’s mind

Testimonial

Europe Italy

Frederico is serving a ten-year sentence in Italy. He recounts for Prison Insider, what his days are like in Rome’s Rebibbia prison. Read more

July 23, 2018

Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions

Analysis Opinion

Europe Mental health Italy

Five Star Movement - Lega’s governing contract poses some problems: here is what Giuseppe Mosconi Professor of Sociology of Law and President of Antigone Veneto thinks At first reading, Chapter 12 of the Five Star Movement and Lega’s government plan (or “government contract,” as they call it) see… Read more

May 23, 2018

Italy: challenges ahead

Report

Pre-trial detention Europe Foreign prisoners Health Overcrowding Activities Italy

– Published 25 May 2018.¶ Antigone has been advocating for a long time to urge the Government to reform the penitentiary system. A law was supposed to bring significant changes, such as: Equalization of psychiatric diseases to physical diseases with the aim of providing an adequate medical and ju… Read more

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.

Source — CNN

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”

Source — The guardian

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.

Source — New York Times

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.” Read more