Italian prisons are overcrowded and migrants represent 31% of inmates (as opposed to 10% of the Italian general population), while government policy is hindering reeducation projects inside and outside jail. Looking at Italian penal institutions it is increasingly difficult to answer the question: are they actually preventing crime?

With the modification of Article 4bis, which does not eliminate the presumption in itself, but its absolute character, the Italian legislator, prodded by the Constitutional Court, has overcome unappealable prison for life. But there are many aspects that still need to be clarified

Involving prison inmates in training activities and work opportunities, while also promoting UN Sustainable Development Goals, reduces the risk of them returning to crime. But Italian companies are not rising to the challenge thus betraying the trumpeted values of diversity and inclusion