6 out of 10
Those who return to prison after already serving a sentence
DAP, Ministry of Justice · 2023
ART. 27 OF THE CONSTITUTION
The word “prison” does not exist in the Constitution.
Art. 27: punishments “may not consist in treatment contrary to the sense of humanity” and “must aim at re-educating the convicted”. Then there is what actually happens.
What you can do
The pillars of failure
In 2013 the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy for inhuman and degrading treatment: the Torreggiani judgment. Thirteen years on, these are the numbers.
€55,000
Average yearly cost per person in prison
DAP, Ministry of Justice · 2023
2,200%
In prison the risk of suicide is higher
National Guarantor · Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Fundamental rights
Punishment does not erase your fundamental rights. We help you assert them.
Dignity and living space
Below 3 m² per person, detention is inhuman. The law provides compensation if the right is violated.
Reintegrate into society
Outside work, permits, semi-liberty and probation: the steps the law provides for becoming part of society again.
Early release
Reducing the sentence and accelerating all benefits: a mechanism worth knowing.
Maintaining affective bonds
Staying in contact is a right that keeps the bond with the outside world alive.
We are here so that those rights can be enforced.
We go into the institutions, follow the cases one by one and build the tools you have just seen. Trained volunteers do it, and the accounts of what we do are public.
“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 and president
Read the full letterFOUNDING MEMBERS
Giulia Troncatti
Founding member and president
A graduate in philology, literature and ancient history from the University of Milan, with a master's in deviance and the justice system at Bicocca and one in strategic philanthropy at Ca' Foscari. Since 2021 she has been a university tutor in Milan's prisons for the University of Milan's Progetto Carcere.
Alberto Maria Genovese
Founding member · Funds the Movement.
Entrepreneur, born in Naples in 1977, he founded Facile.it in 2008 and Prima Assicurazioni in 2014. Serious offences in 2020, followed by detention. In 2022 he set up the Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese with his sister. He is in charge of fundraising for Hands Off Cain (Nessuno tocchi Caino).
The Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights (Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti) was founded by Giulia Troncatti and Alberto Maria Genovese. Incorporated on 20 April 2026 and turned into an ETS in July, it has been listed in the National Register of the Third Sector since 17 August 2026.
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.
Detention in inhuman and degrading conditions
You are entitled to compensation, our AI can help you prepare the petition.
Calculate end of sentence and legal benefits
A professional and free tool for inmates, families and lawyers
Create the early release application
Get a personalised PDF ready to sign and submit to the Supervisory Court.
Communicate safely with your loved ones
ZeroMail: The direct line that turns letters from prison into emails for families.
“If there is one place where Italian laws are broken more than anywhere else, it is prison. Not by the prisoners, but by the State.”
EXPERIENCES AND INSIGHTS
Prison told by those who know it
Nicola Cocco: Inside the CPR detention centres: what does being «fit» for detention mean?
October 3, 2026
«Rome's sixteenth district»: Gualtieri and the hidden city
September 7, 2026
Paolo Liguori: «Where punishment becomes inhuman, the State is in the wrong»
August 31, 2026
A society without cells, but not without punishment | Luigi Manconi
August 28, 2026
«How do we move beyond the prison model?» — An interview with Ilaria Cucchi
August 17, 2026
Giachetti: "Prisons are pigsties, the State is acting unlawfully"
August 10, 2026
«What kind of world is this?» | Piero Sansonetti on punishment, freedom and civil rights battles
July 31, 2026
In the press
Il Giornale d'Italia
“A protocol with the DAP: training and work, even after the sentence ends.”
Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights and the Prison Administration Department: a two-year protocol for training, work and reintegration
Read the articleAdisu News
“Only 16 people in detention are enrolled at university in the whole of Umbria.”
Education behind bars: the obstacles to the right to study in Umbria's prisons
Read the articleAffaritaliani.it
“A journey through Italy's prisons to see detention at first hand.”
Breaking down barriers and imagining tomorrow. The first months of the Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights ETS
Read the articleAdisu News
“In prison, school loses out to work, illness and the timetable.”
Education in detention: is the right to study really accessible?
Read the articleParmaDaily.it
“Parma and the Spes contro spem workshop run by Nessuno tocchi Caino.”
Hands Off Cain and the Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights at the via Burla prison
Read the articlePiacenza24
“Overcrowding weighs on daily life inside the prisons.”
Inspection at Le Novate, overcrowding and psychiatric care the critical points: “Around 200 prisoners over the capacity limit, 300 have behavioural disorders” – AUDIO
Read the articleLa Stampa
“Sorbara: institutional commitment on a par with the human and social kind.”
Sorbara and the Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights donate 30 fans to Turin prison
Read the articleRistretti
“Uta: 753 people held in 561 regulation places. Overcrowding at 134.2%.”
Cagliari. In Uta prison people in detention suffer overcrowding and inadequate healthcare
Read the articleIl Giornale d'Italia
“Digital services for people in prison and their families, to find their bearings during a sentence.”
Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights, the new non-profit association founded by Giulia Troncatti is under way
Read the articleAffaritaliani.it
“Awareness and training: the Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights.”
The Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights is born, for reintegration and protection in prison
Read the article
“Artificial intelligence put to work for the rights of people in prison.”
Overcrowded prisons? Artificial intelligence will write the applications for release
Read the articleWhere do you want to start?
Every right on this page has a tool that makes it enforceable. You do not need a lawyer to use it.
35-ter application
Compensation for detention in less than 3 m²
Sentence-end calculator
How long is left, with every benefit
Early release
Forty-five days every six months
ZeroMail
Writing to someone inside, without paper