In July he would have finished serving his sentence, but the prison police officers found him hanged with a sheet in his cell in the Rebibbia prison.
He was "a thirty-year-old boy - underlines the Ombudsman of Rome Gabriella Stramaccioni - with a short sentence".
A sentence of less than two years for complicity in robbery.
And under three it is possible to ask for an alternative sentence to prison.+
The young man, of Bengali origin, is the 82nd victim of suicide since the beginning of the year.
Before him in Naples, a man of the same age had taken his own life who had recently become the father of twins.
In this year's dramatic sequence there is also an eighty-three year old, the oldest to have taken his own life, nine boys between 18 and 25, and 5 women, a very high number, compared to the female prison population (about two thousand).
Another 5 suicides are counted among prison police officers, as reported by the unions.
Such high numbers have never been recorded: not even in 2012, when there were 11,000 more prisoners, prisons burst and Italy was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for inhuman and degrading treatment.
Such a high number is the "indication of a penitentiary system that requires profound changes", denounces the president of Antigone, Patrizio Gonnella, who asks that the prison issue be addressed in Parliament "in order to humanize and modernize the conditions of detention: it is a need that also concerns the staff of prisons. The greater the social gratification of the staff, the better the climate inside prisons will be".
In recent days, Pope Francis has evoked a provision of clemency in view of Christmas.
"There were no responses from the political and managerial class", underlines Gonnella. "The solution - says Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Ostellari, of the League - cannot be an amnesty, we need a change of perspective". "