Prison is a total institution product of a society based on domination and
exploitation. Far from being a solution to social problems, it represents one ofthe many faces of state violence. ---- In Italy the conditions of detention inprisons have been steadily worsening for years: overcrowding and physical andpsychological abuse are the "normality" of an increasingly intolerable situation,and this is proved by the increasingly numerous suicides. ---- The conditions ofexistence of those who find themselves under the 41bis or High Surveillanceregime are even more unacceptable. In these cases we can speak of realpsychophysical torture due to the very heavy conditions of isolation anddeprivation. ---- Life imprisonment as well as article 41 bis areinstitutionalized horror, unworthy of any society. Beyond the hairy proclamationson the need to 'recover' the prisoner to normal social life, these sentencesinflicted reveal the consideration the ruling classes hold in those who fall intothe networks of their 'justice': waste to be isolated in that landfill societythat are prisons.Even the Constitutional Court has noticed this, declaring these measuresunconstitutional as early as 2021. The new Government, continuing the practice ofthe previous ones, has instead reiterated the application of the impediment tolife imprisonment.For years we have been witnessing the particular fury of repressive institutionsagainst the anarchist movement with ever more imaginative judicial theories andever heavier sentences, even for episodes of normal social conflict. In fact,against the anarchist movement that "criminal law of the enemy" is applied on thebasis of which one is judged not so much for the actions committed but as forone's own ideas.This fury also reverberates against the prisoners who claim their anarchist idealand who, more and more often, are subjected to the harshest prison regimes, mostrecently the 41bis.Alfredo Cospito has been on a hunger strike for weeks to the bitter end to beremoved from the 41Bis regime, while other * inmates * have in turn begun ahunger strike in solidarity.We support their struggle as well as all the struggles carried out by prisonersin all prisons to demand less oppressive conditions of existence, for thedefinitive closure of the 41bis and other special prison regimes.In our history we have known the barbarity of wicked laws, confinement, exile,physical elimination; they have never succeeded in their intent: the hunger forfreedom and social justice is stronger than anything.November 20, 2022released by the Correspondence Commission of the Italian Anarchist Federationhttps://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2022/20221120cdc.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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