A special prison regime

Abstract

The author offers a critical guide to the current debate of the 41-bis special detention regime, pointing out critical issues, urgencies and risks in the need to open a clear discussion on the special regime: on its numerical extension, on its too often unlimited duration, on the material conditions of detention, on the individual measures and on the scrupulous protection of the rights which pertain to the person and which constitute the indispensable fulcrum of a democratic system.