Solitary confinement Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Italy ==== Italian prisoners subject to special surveillance ("''41-bis'' regime") may be in de facto solitary confinement.<ref name="CPT2020">{{cite report |title=Report to the Italian Government on the visit to Italy carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 12 to 22 March 2019 |date=21 January 2020 |publisher=CPT |docket=CPT/Inf (2020) 2 |url=https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/council-of-europe-anti-torture-committee-publishes-report-on-italy-focusing-on-prison-establishments |access-date=2022-08-20 |pages=28โ38 |archive-date=20 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520120148/https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/council-of-europe-anti-torture-committee-publishes-report-on-italy-focusing-on-prison-establishments |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Life imprisonment in Italy|A person sentenced to multiple life sentences in Italy]] may be required by the Minister of Justice to serve a period of between 6 months to years in the "''41-bis'' regime" of solitary confinement, subject to extension and review.<ref name="CPT2020"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Marini |first=Fernando |title=Report Decries Use of Solitary Confinement in Italian Prisons |website=Civil Liberties Union for Europe |date=4 March 2019 |url=https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/italy-41bisreport-nationalguarantor/16785 |access-date=2022-08-20 |postscript=, |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326023748/https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/italy-41bisreport-nationalguarantor/16785 |url-status=live }} citing {{cite report |last=Palma |first=Mauro |title=Thematic report on the special prison regime pursuant to Article 41-bis of the Penitentiary Act (2016โ2018) |publisher=Italian Parliament reports |via=Garante nazionale dei diritti delle personeprivate della libertร personale |date=7 January 2019 |url=https://www.garantenazionaleprivatiliberta.it/gnpl/resources/cms/documents/a5db4acf7c430ee2221c5453720730c2.pdf |access-date=2022-08-20 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326023748/https://www.garantenazionaleprivatiliberta.it/gnpl/resources/cms/documents/a5db4acf7c430ee2221c5453720730c2.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page