| Law No. 354/1975 (Legge 26 luglio 1975, n. 354, Norme sull’ordinamento penitenziario e sulla esecuzione delle misure privative e limitative della libertà) | Penitentiary treatment must respect human dignity: it must be compliant with the principles of impartiality, without discriminations based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, nationality, economic and social conditions, political opinions, religious beliefs. The distribution of detainees who are at risk of violence from the other detainees on grounds of their gender identity and/or sexual orientation, must be carried out following homogeneous categories on the entire national territory, upon consent of the detainees who are, otherwise, distributed among ordinary prison wards. |