2017 | The NPM recommends that Italian authorities should introduce a strict monitoring system to identify acts of violence perpetrated by police officers against prisoners, as well as a specific criminal offence to contrast such violence. The NPM reported that in some of the detention facilities monitored during 2017, LGB prisoners are detained in generic protected sections and all the documents concerning their status and detention activities (such as the formal requests addressed to the jail’s direction) report the indication 'Protected-homosexual': considering that such documents can be accessed by several members of the prison’s staff this might represent a disclosure of sensitive personal data and a violation of the prisoners’ right to protection of personal information. | Report details |
2018 | The NPM recommends to abolish such practice, described in the report of 2017, in all Italian detention facilities. As to female detainees, they were all held in male detention facilities. For this reason, the NPM recommends again that these people are detained in female sections in order to respect their gender identity and that a public and political debate is fostered to promote their detention conditions. In any case, the Authority recommends for this group of detainees as well that protection measures do not entail the exclusion of prisoners from common activities and socialisation. | Report details |
2019 | The Italian NPM recommended Italian authorities the necessity to “guarantee in every institution a regular recording of “critical events” and the simultaneous entry of such data in the information system of the Ministry of Justice | Report details |
2020 | LGBTI detainees must be considered a vulnerable category, more at risk of suffering violence during the detention period. In its opinion, the most urgent measure to implement is the development of training sessions concerning diversity and non-discrimination destined both to detainees and to the prison’s staff. Moreover, the NPM recalled the necessity of elaborating strategies to ensure the detainees’ right to affectivity and sexuality, including also non-heterosexual couples. | Report details |