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Autore
Forti, Gabrio

Titolo
Dignità umana e persone soggette all'esecuzione penale
Periodico
Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 7 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 237 - Pagina finale: 237

The dignity of people held in custody is considered in this work as a perspective able to provide aconcrete and dynamic meaning to the general, but somewhat vague and controversial, concept of"human dignity". Moving from a brief summary of national and international sources of law andfrom some philosophical premises on the significance of dignity, the essay tries to connect humandignity, equality, and freedoms within a unique systemic frame. If the guiding idea in a democraticsociety should be a life with, or worthy of, human dignity, such a condition is warranted by a seriesof human capabilities, whose implementation and protection should be deemed as main objectives ofa "decent society". Moreover, the vulnerable and fragile status of those serving a sentence demands aparticular and constant attention upon their treatment inside a prison facility. The main issue lies inthe compatibility of the criminal detention conditions in Italian prisons with the principle of rehabilitationstated by Art. 27.3 of the Italian Constitution and with the international safeguards of prisoners'rights. The Italian enduring anathema of prison overcrowding epitomizes the hindrances to areal rehabilitation of detainees, especially in view of the European Court on Human Rights case lawabout the violation of Art. 3 of the ECHR due to Italy (pilot sentence: Torreggiani et al., 2013). Theinescapable goal of improving the offender/inmate's care for his/her person, his/her thinking skills,and the care for his/her personal relations as tools for rehabilitation and, thus, prevention, should beachieved through criminal sanctions re-conceived as "projects" and "opportunities" to improveone's capabilities to contribute to the development of his/her community.



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