Country

Italy

Detention issue

Cell space

FRA research findings

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Law No. 354/1975 (Legge 26 luglio 1975, n. 354, Norme sull’ordinamento penitenziario e sulla esecuzione delle misure privative e limitative della libertà)Cells must be: spacious enough, enlightened with both natural and artificial light in order to allow detainees to work and study, ventilated and heated, and provided with private, decent, and rational sanitary facilities. Cells can have one or more beds: wherever possible, defendants – i.e. those who have not yet been sentenced – should be given the possibility to sleep in one-bed cells, each prisoner must be given adequate equipment for their bed.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2017According to the NPM, the 3 m2 standard should be considered as a minimum standard – the breach of which would amount to a severe violation of human dignity – and not as the ordinary standard for jail cells. Report details
http://www.garantenazionaleprivatiliberta.it/gnpl/resources/cms/documents/f476d7d0ed761bd1bc9459e07a5e8875.pdf