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‘Prison, Rights, Society’: a CRID-promoted round table on the conditions of persons deprived of their liberty at Jurisprudence

The Department of Law will hold the Round Table ‘Prison, Rights, Society’ on Wednesday 13 November, from 3.45 p.m., in Aula S (Via S. Geminiano, 3, Modena). The initiative, which will see the participation of various guests and experts, is part of the activities of the legal training workshop ‘Towards the Legal Clinic’ set up at the CRID - Interdepartmental Research Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerability of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (www.crid.unimore.it).

The dialogue will be based on the book Al di là delle sbarre, al di qua del muro (Edizioni Golem, 2024), written by Carlo Barbieri, who after having worked for a long time for the Consorzio Nazionale Cooperative di Consumo Coop Italia, dedicates his work to the study of prison conditions. Drawing on the valuable work of the Antigone Association and its annual Report, the book describes the state of prisons and the numerous structural and organisational shortcomings contributing to the non-implementation of Article 27 of the Constitution, both in terms of the punishment's humanity and the objective of re-education and social reintegration of prisoners.

Dialogues with the Author, coordinated by Prof. Thomas Casadei (Director of CRID, Unimore), Prof. Stefano Simonetta (Full Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti” of the University of Milan Statale and Head of the University's Prison Project, as well as from October 2024 Pro-rector of Student Services and Right to Study), Dr. Eleonora Dei Cas (Research Associate in Criminal Procedural Law at the University of Ferrara and collaborator of the Centre for Studies and Documentation on Legality, established at the Department of Law of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Dr. Cesare Trabace (Researcher in Criminology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as well as member of the Information Technology Workshop on ‘Law, Ethics, Technologies’ DET of the CRID - Unimore) and Lawyer Tatiana Boni (Lawyer specialised in criminal law issues, and with specific regard to migration issues, member of the Association Avvocato di Strada - ODV).

During the meeting, they will discuss, in particular, the re-educative purposes of punishment, social recovery initiatives and rehabilitation paths that involve, inside prisons, volunteers, student tutors, musicians, teachers, entrepreneurs..

These are working, musical, theatrical, literary, and scholastic paths that offer the possibility of building a future for the ‘after’, for a social reintegration that contributes to lowering the high rate of recidivism that is a prison reality.

Specific attention will be paid to the Prison Project of the University of Milan Statale, which has the priority objective of contributing to the protection and promotion of the rights - especially the right to study - of persons in detention or subject to restriction of their personal freedom, in order to promote their participation in social life and thus contribute to their reintegration into the community, in compliance with Article 27 of the Constitution.

Participants: Michele Balbinot, Valeria Barone, Casimiro Coniglione, Gianluca Gasparini, Marco Mondello, Claudia Severi, Ivan Valia.

The scientific-organisational coordination of the round table is by Dr Marco Mondello (research fellow in Philosophy of Law at the Dept. of Law): segreteria.crid@unimore.it.

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