With 99 every 100.000 inhabitants, Italy joins the countries that suffer from the overcrowding of prisons surpassing their capacity of over 117,9%
It also comes from an online database that provides free access to information on prison systems all over the world, the planned shrewd on the Italian prison situation. A real drama that affects the protection of human dignity of those who are held and on which the instruments and measures adopted so far have proved completely ineffective. To highlight and photograph the phenomenon of excessive overcrowding of prisons - which escapes most of a public opinion increasingly ready to whip and crucify without being aware of the real situation of progressive cancellation of the most elementary human rights - the relationship has given us of the World Prison Brief.
In the document intended for Italy, it is explained that "the problem has not been solved because many prisons still operate beyond their capacity", even if Italy is a country like others, in which the news does not never missing: husband killing his wife, sexually abused minors, theft, illegal cultivation of drugs or their trafficking. Not surprisingly, the prisons in Italy are all full. According to the World Prison Brief (http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/italy) a unique database that offers access to information to prison systems around the world, Italy ranks in the list of countries that have filled prisons over 100%.
For the country, in fact, this indicates - which is based on the official capabilities of the prisons - amounts to 117,9%. From the official data Ministry of Justice - excluding those in institutions for minors, of which 462 to 15.8.2018, against an official capacity of the prison system of 50.581 detained (given to 31.12.2018 - not including penal institutions for minors) results that in Italy there are 31.12.2018 about 59.655 detainees (given to 31.12.2018 - not including penal institutions for minors), of which 4,3% women, not including those in institutions for minors: value increasing compared to the previous year. Prisons in Italy go hand in hand more and more filled with convicts for drugs, while they are less and less convicted of robbery and rape. More detailed information on convictions of prisoners shows that crimes related to drugs are at the forefront.
In second place, however, there are the crime related to theft. The percentage of the highest prison population equal to 34,0% (given to 31.12.2018 - not including those in institutions for minors). is that of foreign prisoners against 32,8% (31.12.2018 - not including those in institutions for minors) of pre-trial detainees / held in custody. The report also shows that the number of establishments / institutions on Italian territory are 207 (July data 2018 - 190 penal institutions for adults, 17 for minors). The report of the World Prison Brief, International Center for Prison Studies financed by the Charities Commission of England and Wales and is hosted by the Institute for Research on Criminal Policy (ICPR), Birkbeck College, University of London, therefore, constitutes a real It is a warning to Italy and to the Minister of Justice in the first person. The "Rights Window", shows that Italy also has an obligation to comply with the standards that the Council of Europe's Prevention of Torture Committee has set for the space that every prisoner must have at his disposal in the cell: 6 meters for two of living space, excluding toilets, in a single cell, and 4 meters for two in a cell shared with other inmates.
Minimum dimensions that unfortunately, and this many do not know, are almost never respected in most of the detention facilities scattered throughout the national territory, in which situations of obvious overcrowding continue to exist with little possibility of rehabilitation due to lack or lack of rehabilitation or training activities . In short, the prison continues to be, and indeed, the first school of crime in open antithesis with the function of punishment that is the constitutional rehabilitation and allow re-entry into the society of the condemned. What is highlighted in the report, is that the perverse spiral activated by the Italian prison system, instead of leading to a reduction in the number of prisoners, is, on the contrary, causing a steady increase in the number of prisoners. So for Giovanni D'Agata, president of the "Rights Window", a real indictment against the Italian authorities and the Ministry of Justice that in recent years has done nothing to take appropriate measures to change this shame, starting from a reduction in the legislative abuse of pre-trial detention in prison and the easiest concession of alternative measures appropriate to the various types of offenses and offenders.