the morning of April 17, 2010 for the first time I crossed the entrance of 'penal institution for juveniles "( 1) Treviso: waiting for me, in his office, the Director Alfonso Paggiarino, who from behind his desk, handling a number of letters with lots of stamps and signatures, told me that his superiors based in Venice, as well as those of the Ministry of Justice to Rome, had released all the necessary permissions to allow me to interview - in order to publish a book - both managers and operators of IPM, the detainees minors.
Why this book? Because I was in the office of the Director of IPM?
I had met Dr. Paggiarino first two months in the parish of "St. George the Martyr" in Quinto di Treviso, at the presentation of the book "Condemned to live, "which I published together with the prison chaplain Father Peter Zardo more, during the debate between the audience and presenters had been repeatedly emphasized, also from the same Paggiarino, the need to take preventive action to curb crime. In recent years, however, many prisons are facing an overcrowding of admissions due, most likely, need to ensure public safety. It appears that increased penalties decided by the legislature in order to reassure the public, especially concerned about some reports of crime.
In that, as on other occasions, I have noticed that, in general, individuals participating in public meetings sulla realtà del carcere di Treviso è portato, alla fine del dibattito, ad avere parole di comprensione nei confronti di chi – pur avendo commesso reati gravi –, sconta la propria pena vivendo e soffrendo in celle anguste, locali che dovrebbero accogliere due detenuti e invece ne stipano insieme quattro, e dove sono costrette a convivere persone di diversa etnia, lingua e religione, che hanno commesso reati diversi e hanno abitudini diverse.
Ma quanto pesano queste parole di comprensione? Molto probabilmente vengono presto dimenticate di fronte ai problemi che la vita quotidiana ci pone. Ho ricevuto lettere e commenti al libro sopra citato da parte di persone che si dichiarano oneste – e probabilmente lo sono – e ogni giorno must deal with the so-called medical malpractice, the bad and the school bureaucracy that does not properly form their children because of the shortage of funds that the state provides for various public services. There are those who have economic difficulties due to job insecurity, or even because they do not have a job, he is spontaneous, and then face a grimace of anger when, at some public meeting, it is argued that those who should be coming out of prison find a job and a place to sleep.
Public money - too many people think - to be invested to provide practical responses to those who observe the rules of civil coexistence, and works for the common good. A speech, this, that does not a fold, unless you want to proceed to interrupt the circuit that feeds the pages daily newspapers devoted to crime news.
In fact, when it comes to crime, we must not think only of certain bloodthirsty beasts who kill a thousand torments his victims: in Italy many people are detained for crimes that include penalties of even a few years, enough so that the inmate will burn any chance to work, and with it a source of income, not to find any emotional connection and not even have a place to sleep once you cross the gate of the prison. Under these conditions the way the crime is embarked for the umpteenth time. So then in our communities we are once again a person who, in a few minutes, may commit acts likely to jeopardize or destroy the lives of others.
what to do? A person who has committed a fraud or theft you can keep her in prison for life at the expense of the community? And if we can not bear this cost, it can be assumed to re-enter in our judicial system, the death penalty? If these two roads you can not go, then we must think seriously about what to do when a prisoner is approaching the day of release from prison. And if we put that concern to an adult, must be even more attention to who finds himself behind bars before the age of eighteen.
Why this book? Because I was in the office of the Director of IPM?
I had met Dr. Paggiarino first two months in the parish of "St. George the Martyr" in Quinto di Treviso, at the presentation of the book "Condemned to live, "which I published together with the prison chaplain Father Peter Zardo more, during the debate between the audience and presenters had been repeatedly emphasized, also from the same Paggiarino, the need to take preventive action to curb crime. In recent years, however, many prisons are facing an overcrowding of admissions due, most likely, need to ensure public safety. It appears that increased penalties decided by the legislature in order to reassure the public, especially concerned about some reports of crime.
In that, as on other occasions, I have noticed that, in general, individuals participating in public meetings sulla realtà del carcere di Treviso è portato, alla fine del dibattito, ad avere parole di comprensione nei confronti di chi – pur avendo commesso reati gravi –, sconta la propria pena vivendo e soffrendo in celle anguste, locali che dovrebbero accogliere due detenuti e invece ne stipano insieme quattro, e dove sono costrette a convivere persone di diversa etnia, lingua e religione, che hanno commesso reati diversi e hanno abitudini diverse.
Ma quanto pesano queste parole di comprensione? Molto probabilmente vengono presto dimenticate di fronte ai problemi che la vita quotidiana ci pone. Ho ricevuto lettere e commenti al libro sopra citato da parte di persone che si dichiarano oneste – e probabilmente lo sono – e ogni giorno must deal with the so-called medical malpractice, the bad and the school bureaucracy that does not properly form their children because of the shortage of funds that the state provides for various public services. There are those who have economic difficulties due to job insecurity, or even because they do not have a job, he is spontaneous, and then face a grimace of anger when, at some public meeting, it is argued that those who should be coming out of prison find a job and a place to sleep.
Public money - too many people think - to be invested to provide practical responses to those who observe the rules of civil coexistence, and works for the common good. A speech, this, that does not a fold, unless you want to proceed to interrupt the circuit that feeds the pages daily newspapers devoted to crime news.
In fact, when it comes to crime, we must not think only of certain bloodthirsty beasts who kill a thousand torments his victims: in Italy many people are detained for crimes that include penalties of even a few years, enough so that the inmate will burn any chance to work, and with it a source of income, not to find any emotional connection and not even have a place to sleep once you cross the gate of the prison. Under these conditions the way the crime is embarked for the umpteenth time. So then in our communities we are once again a person who, in a few minutes, may commit acts likely to jeopardize or destroy the lives of others.
what to do? A person who has committed a fraud or theft you can keep her in prison for life at the expense of the community? And if we can not bear this cost, it can be assumed to re-enter in our judicial system, the death penalty? If these two roads you can not go, then we must think seriously about what to do when a prisoner is approaching the day of release from prison. And if we put that concern to an adult, must be even more attention to who finds himself behind bars before the age of eighteen.
Now, finally, I managed to send to print this book and take account of the first copies to a public meeting to be held January 14, 2011 in San Fior. This new book is titled "Free inmates. Stories of juvenile detainees," issues of Walnut.
( 1) Currently in Italy there are 17 penal institutions for minors spread over much of the country (excluding the regions of Val d'Aosta, Liguria, Trentino Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia , Marche, Umbria and Molise record because a lower rate of juvenile delinquency). The organizational structure and management of Ipm is governed by Circular No 5391 February 17, 2006.
After my speech took the floor Pedro el Zardo ' Mauro Scipioni inspector, deputy commander of the prison service, the latter replaced the prison director Francesco Massimo, who was unable to attend. 
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