Key websites¶

• Antigone : Observatory on detention conditions / Observatory on detention conditions for minors (in Italian)
• Bambinisanzasbarre (in Italian)
• National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Personal Liberty (in Italian)
• Osservatorio Carcere (in Italian).
• Statistics of the Ministry of Justice (in Italian)

Reports and guides¶

• Antigone, “One year in prison. XIV Report on detention conditions: press release”, 18 May 2018.
• Antigone, “Submissions to the UN Committee concerning Italy”, 6 November 2017 – 6 December 2017.
• Antigone, “Italie encore beaucoup à faire…”, November 2017 (in French)
• Antigone, “Annual Report”, 2017 (in Italian)
• Antigone, “Observatory on detention conditions”, 2017 (in Italian)
• Antigone, “Annual Report”, 2016 (in Italian)
• Antigone, “The practice of pre-trial detention in Italy: research report”, September 2015.
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), “Report to the Italian government on the visit to Italy from 8 to 26 April 2016”, 2017.
• European Prison Observatory, “Prison conditions in Italy”, September 2013.
• Foreign and Commonwealth office, “Information Pack for British prisoners in Italy”, 22 December 2016.
• Guide for prisoners relatives (in Italian)
• Human Rights Committee, “Concluding observation on the sixth periodic report on Italy”, 1 May 2017.
• International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT) & Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in Italy (ACAT-Italy), “Joint alternative report by FIACAT and ACAT Italy on the implementation by Italy”, Committee against torture 62th session, November 2017.
• Multilingual guide for prisoners (available in Italian, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Albanian, Croatian)
• National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Personal Liberty, “Report to Parliament”, 2018 (in Italian)
• National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Personal Liberty, “Standards and normalcy: the recommendations to the penitentiary administration 2016-2107”, 29 January 2017. (in Italian)
• National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Personal Liberty, “Report to Parliament”, 2017.
• Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT), “Report of the SPT on the visit made to Italy”, September 2016.
• UN Committee against Torture, “Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Italy”, 18 December 2017.

Articles¶

• Vieri Adriani,”A brief introduction to the Italian criminal law”, Avvocato Adriani, 24 February 2013.
• Giovanni Antonetti, Daniela D’Angelo, Paola Scampati, Ileana Croci, Narciso Mostarda, Saverio Potenza and Rosaria Alvaro, “The health needs of women prisoners: an Italian field survey”, in Ann Ist Super Sanità 2018, vol.2.
• Nicola Canestrini, “Italian criminal trial”, Canestrinilex, 16 March 2018.
• Virginia Cinelli, “Radicalization in prison: Italian case”, in Sicurezza Terrorismo Società, n°7, 2018.
• Yéris Nicolas and Margaux Romano, “Places of detention in Italy: from the Constitutional Court to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture”, in La Revue des droits de l’Homme, 30 October 2017. (in French)

ECtHR judgments¶

• Blair and others v. Italy and Azzolina and others v. Italy, 26 October 2017.
• Cirino and Renne v. Italy, 26 October 2017.
• Torreggiani and others v.Italy, 8 January 2013.
• Sulejmanovic v. Italy, 16 July 2009.

Videos¶

• Antigone’s web-doc on prison life
• Justice in Italy, produced by Radio Radicale