Italy

Capital city — Rome

Country population
59,066,225
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2021
/ The World Bank
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
93
The NPM report st…
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2022
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Parliamentary Democracy
Human Development Index
0.895
(30/191)
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2021
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.47
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2020
/ UNODC
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
56,127
This number does…
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31/05/2023
/ ministry of Justice, Detenuti presenti
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
19
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – 2021 Report, p. 124.
Prison density
109 %
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30/01/2023
/ ministry of Justice, Detenuti italiani e stranieri presenti e capienze per istituto (in italian).
Total number of prison facilities
206
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31/01/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2014
Female prisoners
4.3 %
On 31 January 202…
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04/05/2023
/ ANSA it
Incarcerated minors
0.3 %
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15/01/2023
/ Ministry of Justice Minorenni e giovani adulti in carico ai Servizi minorili (in Italian).
Percentage of untried prisoners
27.5 %
This number does…
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31/01/2023
/ ministry of Justice, Detenuti presenti (in Italian).
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
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”, 2020
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
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
European Prison Observatory, “Prison Conditions in Italy”, 2019
World Health Organization, Health in Prisons, 2019
Subcommittee on the Prevention fo Torture, “Report to the Italian Government on the Visit from 16–22 September 2015, 2016