The regulatory framework that regulates life imprisonment "has changed significantly" as the reform of the executive of Giorgia Meloni launched on 31 October 2022 - after the requests of the Consulta to the previous governments - has made the lack of collaboration with the justice "a only relative foreclosure and provided for access to penitentiary benefits and alternative measures" also "for non-cooperating prisoners, obviously convicted of impeding crimes, albeit in the presence of stringent and concomitant conditions".
This was underlined by the Cassation in the reasons for the verdict that last March 8 "promoted" the reform of the life imprisonment, also requested by the Court of Strasbourg.
According to the Stoats, "the main result of the new discipline is found in the transformation from absolute into relative of the presumption of dangerousness which prevents the granting of benefits and alternative measures in favor of non-cooperating prisoners".
To act as the "propelling motor" to the reform Salvatore Pezzino, imprisoned for life in the Sardinian prison of Tempio for a number of sentences issued by the judges of Palermo, including one for murder with mafia aggravating circumstance. The prisoner, who has been in his cell for over ten years has never cooperated, has asked for parole and denounced the "degrading and inhumane" conditions in which he is detained. Now his case will also be re-examined in the light of the reform and the sentence of the Cassation, as the supreme judges have written.
(Unioneonline/L)
