in prisons from Emilia-Romagna there are 3.820 inmates, but the capacity is 2.988 seatsIn the cells you have to squeeze in to make room for 832 more people. And to ensure safety there are 1.907 Penitentiary Police officers, even though according to the organic plan there should be 2.105. 198 are missing. A critical situation, that of the penal institutions also in Emilia-Romagna, in which 5 inmates they took their own lives in this first glimpse of 2025.

The President of the Region, Michael de Pascale, and the Welfare Councillor, Isabella Conti, They led two regional delegations composed of local administrators, representatives of the Criminal Chambers and the Bar Association to the prisons of Dozza in Bologna e of Saint Anna in Modena, with the commitment to continue and visit all the other penal institutions in the region.

The goal is the discussion panel with the top management of the Emilia-Romagna penitentiary systema on the current critical issues, starting from overcrowding e acts of self-harm, aiming at the definition a regional protocol to concretely improve living conditions inside prisons, both from a health perspective and from that of social and work reintegration, make the penalty actually re-educational and not exclusively custodial.

All this is discussed in “Your daily prison“, the new special edited by the Information and Communication Agency of the Council, online on the Region's website from today at the address Your daily prison – Emilia-Romagna Region.

In the special, a long report from inside the prisons of Bologna and Modena written by Stefano Aurighi, journalist of the Information and Communication Agency. In addition to infographics with data on the prison reality and thematic sheets on the Region's activity: the Health, first of all, with the details of the interventions for prevention, assistance and care of the prison population; the interventions of welfare, with the aim of reintegration into society; the activities cultural, starting from the theatre workshops. And again: the work, with the detail of the training interventions for social and work inclusion of adults and the activities of orientation, individual support and training courses for the minor, untileducation, with the literacy courses for technical, professional or artistic diplomas by the Regional School Office for Emilia-Romagna. And the videos with the president of Pascale and the councilor Accounts.

In addition to Stefano Aurighi, the special is curated by Cristina Gaddi e Stefano Asprea, from the Information and Communication Agency of the Council. (red)