Consult: life imprisonment is unconstitutional, absolute prohibition of premium permits falls
Strasbourg Court: Italy violates human rights with life imprisonment
The Strasbourg Court says that Italy must reform the law on life imprisonment
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April 15, 2021 Life imprisonment is incompatible with the Constitution but legislative action is required.
This was established by the Constitutional Court, which gives Parliament one year.
An intervention by the legislator is required on the impeding life imprisonment: for this reason the Constitutional Court, considering that "the immediate acceptance of the issues" raised by the Supreme Court "would risk entering inadequately in the current system of combating organized crime", decided to postpone the discussion to May 2022, to "allow the legislator to take action that takes into account both the peculiar nature of the crimes connected with organized crime of the mafia type, and the related prison rules, and the need to preserve the value of collaboration with justice in these cases".