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Giulia Troncatti

Founder and President of the Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights (Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti)

Giulia Troncatti founded the Italian Movement for Prisoners’ Rights and has been a university tutor in Milan’s penal institutions since 2021.

She holds a degree in Philology, Literature and Ancient History from the University of Milan. Between 2023 and 2025 she taught Italian language and literature in several Milan secondary schools.

Since 2021 she has worked as a university tutor supporting the right to study of people deprived of their liberty, for the University of Milan in Milan’s penal institutions; she has helped run the teaching workshops for the prison campus and edited the proceedings of the training cycle “Oltre i limiti, formare e formarsi in carcere”.

She is studying for a Master’s in Deviance, Justice System and Social Services at the University of Milan-Bicocca and a Master’s in Strategic Philanthropy at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Her role as founder and president is recorded in the Movement's records and in the National Single Register of the Third Sector (RUNTS). The register data.

Background

  • Founder and President of the Italian Movement for Prisoners' Rights2026
  • University tutor in Milan's prisonsUniversity of Milan · since 2021
  • Teacher of Italian and humanitiesSecondary schools in Milan · 2023–2025
  • Two master's degrees in progressDeviance and Justice (Milano-Bicocca) · Strategic Philanthropy (Ca’ Foscari)
  • Degree in Philology, Literature and Ancient HistoryUniversity of Milan
The founder's letter

Their appearances for the Movement

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

Giulia Troncatti — the interview

Giulia Troncatti

Reinserirsi nella società

May 5, 2026

One topic at a time

Short videos explaining how prison works and where reality departs from the law.

Voci di Dentro

Stessa condanna, diverse possibilità

Lettere

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In the press

The Movement they founded

We go inside the institutions, follow each case one by one, and build the tools that make the rights of those inside count.
Our commitment

Who reviews what we publish

The scientific committee

Eleven people putting their expertise behind what we publish. Each has a page with their credentials and the content they have reviewed.

The scientific committee