"The so-called Caivano Decree has introduced a series of measures that are having and will continue to have destructive effects on the juvenile justice system, both in terms of increasing the use of detention and the quality of recovery paths for the young offender".
The Antigone association underlines this in its seventh report on juvenile justice and notes that with the Caivano decree "steps backwards" have been taken and that in the first months of 2024 there will already be 500 minors detained, a dramatically 'record' number in the last decade.
"The extension of the possibilities of applying accompaniment following flagrant crimes and precautionary custody in prison overturns the structure of the 1988 juvenile criminal procedure code and is already causing a surge in admissions to juvenile penal institutions (IPM)", the Report reports.
"At the beginning of 2024, there are approximately 500 inmates in Italian juvenile prisons. A similar figure has not been reached for over ten years. Entrances to IPM are clearly increasing. If there were 835 in 2021, we had 1,143 in 2023, the highest figure high at least in the last fifteen years. The children in Ipm on a precautionary measure were 340 in January 2024, while there were 243 a year earlier, a clear sign of the effects of the Caivano Decree", notes Antigone.
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