Cagliari-Uta, Bancali and Badu 'e Carros will be structures "exclusively dedicated" to prisoners under the 41 bis regime .
What until now was only an alarm raised by the Sardinian centre-left without any official confirmation is now written in black and white in the minutes of the State-Regions Conference of last December 18, during which there was a heated confrontation between the Ministry of Justice represented by Undersecretary Andrea Delmastro and the Sardinia Region represented by Councillor Rosanna Laconi .
The government, Delmastro explains, aims to host only inmates under the strict prison regime in the three main Sardinian institutions , as part of a radical transformation of the maximum security prison system necessary "to respond to new public order needs and constitutional obligations".
The project calls for overcoming the current model, which sees the 750 inmates under the 41-bis regime housed in 12 facilities, almost all of which are interconnected with other detention centers. The goal is to concentrate them in just seven "exclusively dedicated" facilities, "preferably in island areas," and managed solely by specialized units of the GOM (Mobile Operations Group) . This reorganization, the Via Arenula team emphasizes, is made even more urgent by Constitutional Court ruling 30 of 2025, which mandates that inmates be guaranteed at least four hours of outdoor space, a requirement difficult to meet in interconnected facilities.
Sardinia will play a central role in this plan, where three of the seven identified institutions are located: Sassari, Nuoro, and Cagliari-Uta . The minutes state that Sardinia currently has 192 places for 41-bis placements. The undersecretary hypothesized that, while the overall national number will not increase, the Sardinian quota could increase , which Delmastro estimated at approximately 20% .
What is certain is that Sardinia is the most sacrificed region: in Piedmont, where there were two mixed institutes (Cuneo and Novara), only ; in ; in .
