Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights

European Court of Human Rights.
8 January 2013.

Use technology for your rights

European Court of Human Rights.
8 January 2013.

Use technology for your rights

The pillars of failure

7 out of 10

Who returns to prison after already serving a sentence

€55.000

Average annual cost per inmate in prison

+2.442%

Suicides vs national average

The Founder

"We are asking to begin imagining a different society: one in which the penal system is not an instrument of collective revenge, but an instrument of care."

Giulia Troncatti — Founder

Read the founder's letter

Italian Constitution

Article 27 does not say prison. It speaks of dignity.

The Constitution is clear: "Punishments cannot consist of treatments contrary to the sense of humanity."

Official conviction

Yet, in 2013, Italy was convicted for violation of human rights.

Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. 8 January 2013.

Italian Constitution1948

"Punishments cannot consist of treatments contrary to the sense of humanity." Art. 27.

Article 27 stems from a precise awareness: a State is also measured by how it treats those who have made mistakes. Punishment cannot be revenge. It must have a purpose, a limit. That limit is called humanity.

Torreggiani Ruling2013

The European Court of Human Rights convicts Italy for inhuman and degrading treatment.

Not an isolated case. A systemic violation.

Overcrowding, sanitary conditions, the lack of assistance. The State knew. The ruling certifies it.

Today2026

Nothing has changed.

Thirteen years after Torreggiani, the systemic collapse with overcrowding exceeding 150% in dozens of facilities confirms the failure of reforms and the return to detention incompatible with human dignity.

Our commitment

In Italy, it's not only people who are detained. Their rights are too, compressed in cells where there isn't even the minimum space required by law.

Discover our commitment

Fundamental rights

Punishment does not erase your fundamental rights. We help you assert them.

Dignity and living space

3 sqm in a cell is a right, which entitles you to compensation if violated.

Reintegrate into society

Permits, semi-liberty and probation: the path provided by law.

Early release

Reducing the sentence and accelerating all benefits: a mechanism worth knowing.

Maintaining affective bonds

Staying in contact allows the bond with the outside world to be kept alive.

The concrete tools to take action

Prison deprives you of freedom, not of rights. When the State violates them, you can react. That is why we make technological resources available to assert what you are entitled to.