" 2025 is a year to forget for the island's prisons . A real disaster with an exponential increase in the number of inmates under the 41bis regime." This is what is reported in the annual report on the state of prisons in Sardinia , edited by the Socialismo diritti riforma (SDR) association, chaired by Maria Grazia Caligaris, which leaves no room for optimism for 2026 either.
THE NUMBERS – There are currently 92 inmates under the 41bis regime at Bancali prison in Sassari, and another 92 will soon be joined in Uta , reaching the highest rate of citizens held in maximum security in Italy . Sardinia will thus surpass the "Costarelle" of L'Aquila, where, to date, approximately 160 people are held under the 41bis regime . Once work is completed on the Badu 'e Carros section designated for maximum security, this negative record will further increase by approximately 15-20 people . The possibility of a dedicated, hard-line prison at the Nuoro prison even suggests that, if the decisions are upheld, at least another 40 people could be detained in the coming months , always under the careful monitoring of the prison administration department through the agents of the mobile operations group.
The island's prison system houses 2,583 inmates for 2,374 places . The high presence of 41bis prisoners , approximately 600 divided between 5 institutions , and non-EU citizens , approximately 760 , makes the organizational system particularly complex. The president of the association, Maria Grazia Caligaris, says: "With the arrival of the new regional superintendent Antonio Arena and the installation of the new heads of the penitentiary institutions, we had and the prisons would experience a period of stability. Unfortunately, instead, we are actually seeing a . The , in fact, increasingly appears to be a "leviathan" that . The island in fact has a with around (50 in Cagliari-Uta alone) and as many as , both of which are indispensable to ensure that the institutions operate in accordance with the constitution and to guarantee the work of the legal-pedagogical officials and the social reintegration projects".
