Italy

Capital city — Rome

Country population
60,359,546
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2019
/ Eurostat
Type of government
Parliamentary Democracy
Human Development Index
0.883
(29/188)
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2018
/ UNDP
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.7
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2017
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
61,230
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29/02/2020
/ Ministry of Justice
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
101
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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
15.3
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2018
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – 2019 Report, p. 119.
Prison density
120.3 %
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31/01/2020
/ Ministry of Justice
Total number of prison facilities
189
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31/01/2020
/ Ministry of Justice
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2014
Female prisoners
4.4 %
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29/02/2020
/ Ministry of Justice
Incarcerated minors
0.3 %
This figure repre…
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15/02/2020
/ Ministry of Justice Minors and young adults under the care of Child Protective Services.
Percentage of untried prisoners
31 %
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31/12/2019
/ Ministry of Justice
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1994
The death penalty…

Antigone Association (in Italian)
National Guarantor of the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty (in Italian)
Ministry of Justice (in Italian)
Ragazzi dentro (in Italian): The Antigone Association’s initiative is preparing a detailed inventory of the conditions of detention in the various MPIs.

Antigone, “Fifteenth Report on the Conditions of Detention, 2019 (in Italian)
Antigone, “Fourteenth Report on Prison Conditions, 2018 (in Italian)
Antigone, “Research Report on the use of Pre-trial Detention in Italy”, 2015 (in English)
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, “Report to the Italian Government on the Visit from 12–22 March 2019”, 2019 (in English)
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, “Report to the Italian Government on the Visit from 8–21 April 2016”, 2017 (in English)
National Guarantor of the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty, “Report to Parliament”, 2019 (in Italian)
National Guarantor of the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty, “Standards for the Deprivation of Liberty of Adults”, 2018 (in Italian)
Marcelo Aebi, Mélanie Tiago, 2018 Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics - Report I (in English)
European Prison Observatory, “Prison Conditions in Italy”, 2019 (in English)
World Health Organization, Health in Prisons, 2019 (in English)
Subcommittee on the Prevention fo Torture, “Report to the Italian Government on the Visit from 16–22 September 2015, 2016