Bologna – The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, meeting yesterday at the Quirinale with the Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration and a representative of the Penitentiary Police, spoke of the “serious and now unsustainable condition of overcrowding, as well as the inadequate structural conditions of many institutions, in which maintenance and restructuring interventions are necessary.
Interventions to be undertaken urgently, in the awareness that space cannot be conceived solely as a place of custody, but must include environments intended for sociality, affectivity, and treatment planning".
Important words for the National Forensic Association (ANF): “The warning from President Sergio Mattarella reminds us, very gently, that justice is not just trials, sentences and statistics, but is a human space of relationships where every day moments of people's lives are consumed, both as individuals and as a community, and moments of democracy and civilization of a country, on which its degree of progress, present and future, is measured", says the general secretary of the ANF, Giampaolo Di Marco.
“Security and justice must be palindromic concepts, but keeping in mind that both must have the person as their objective, without discrimination, without prejudice and above all applying a new metric to the principle of solidarity of Article 2 of the Constitution”, adds Di Marco.
Furthermore, hearing Mattarella's words, for Di Marco, "amnesty and pardon are not coherent measures" with what the President of the Republic indicates and supports, "which refers to structural measures, in which those of legislative policy such as amnesty and pardon would be yet another easy way out".
But then is it better to build new prisons? Doing so "means that for the State, serving the sentence remains the only form of management of its punitive power. You cannot talk about restorative justice, alternative measures and re-education if then the prison sentence remains the only form that you consider most visible", Di Marco points out.
Article published on 2 July 2025 - 20:52
