The prisons in Nuoro (Badu 'e Carros), Uta (Ettore Scalas), and Sassari (Bancali) are holding only prisoners under the 41-bis regime. This could happen , according to an internal regional document, drafted following this morning's State-Regions conference, during which the transfer of those convicted of mafia and terrorism to the island was also addressed.
The document is circulating, but it's important to clarify immediately: it's a document that reflects the Sardinian participants' interpretation of the words of Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro, who was asked to provide information "regarding the reorganization and rationalization of detention spaces to be allocated to the special differentiated regime referred to in Article 41-bis." Not a report, in short. But a dossier for internal regional use, sufficient to spark controversy.
According to the document, the Undersecretary "initiated that the overall number of prisoners under the 41-bis regime (currently over 750 in Italy) will not be increased. The goal is to realign the de facto situation with the regulatory provision (Article 41-bis, paragraph 2-quater), which requires such prisoners to be housed in "exclusively dedicated" facilities, preferably in island areas, and guarded by specialized units. Currently, however, there are 12 facilities that house prisoners under the 41-bis regime, 11 of whom are in "promiscuous" conditions with other detention centers." This promiscuity must be eliminated.
All maximum-security inmates, according to the document, should be held in seven dedicated facilities. Four are on the Italian mainland (Alessandria, L'Aquila, Parma, and Vigevano) and three are in Sardinia: "Currently, inmates are divided between Sassari, Nuoro, and Cagliari Uta. The plan," says the regional report, "envisions their concentrated relocation precisely in these facilities (Sassari, Nuoro, Cagliari Uta), which will become dedicated.
Councilor Rosanna Laconi, who attended the meeting representing President Todde, according to the document, "spoke, expressing the Region's firm opposition and deep concern." She spoke of the risk of infiltration and lamented the involvement of Sardinian institutions.
Delmastro warned that the risk of criminal infiltration into the prison system is greatest among the families of ordinary inmates, because the families of mafiosi remain in their territory to govern it.
On the preventive information front , "he justified the lack of preventive involvement by citing reasons of national security and the secrecy that characterized the initial phase of the project," the document further states.
A reconstruction that still awaits official confirmation. The certainties so far are: Badu 'e Carros will become a maximum security prison without ordinary inmates, 92 prisoners under the 41 bis regime will soon arrive in the dedicated wing of the Ettore Scalas prison in Uta, and 41 bis prisoners are already in place in Bancali.
