La riforma dell’ordinamento penitenziario, 50 anni dopo. Una rivoluzione mancata?

50 years after the entry into force of the penitentiary system, many promises seem to have been broken. Article 27 of the Constitution, which came into force in 1948, according to which punishments cannot consist of treatments contrary to the sense of humanity and must aim at the re-education of the convicted, should have been fully implemented with the 1975 reform. Half a century later, prison remains the only total institution in Italy, with a prison population different from that of the Seventies, approximately composed of a third of foreigners. And over 40% of these foreigners come from Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco: the countries that experienced the Arab Spring.