A-Infos (en) Italy, anarres info: TURIN. FOR A WORLD WITHOUT STATES AND JAILS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Saturday 14 January - 3 pm Piazza Castello - we will be in the procession against 
repression - with the banner "for a world without states and prisons" ---- Below 
is the text we are spreading these days: ---- Against 41 bis ---- Against 
anti-anarchist repression ---- For a society without prisons ---- 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 of the many faces of 
state violence. ---- In Italy the conditions of detention in prisons have been 
steadily worsening for years: overcrowding and physical and psychological abuse 
are the "normality" of an increasingly intolerable situation, and this is proved 
by the increasingly numerous suicides.
The conditions of existence of those who find themselves under the 41bis or High 
Surveillance regime are even more unacceptable. In these cases we can speak of 
real psychophysical torture due to the very heavy conditions of isolation and 
deprivation.

Life imprisonment as well as article 41 bis are institutionalized horror, 
unworthy of any society. Beyond the hairy proclamations on the need to 'recover' 
the prisoner to normal social life, these sentences inflicted reveal the 
consideration the ruling classes hold in those who fall into the networks of 
their 'justice': waste to be isolated in that landfill society that are prisons.
Even the Constitutional Court noticed it, declaring these measures 
unconstitutional as early as 2021. The new Government, continuing the practice of 
the previous ones, instead reiterated the application of the life sentence.

For years we have been witnessing the particular fury of repressive institutions 
against the anarchist movement with ever more imaginative judicial theorems and 
ever heavier sentences even for episodes of normal social conflict. In fact, the 
"penal law of the enemy" is applied to the anarchist movement on the basis of 
which one is judged not so much for the actions committed but for one's own ideas.
This fury also reverberates against the prisoners who claim their anarchist ideal 
and who, more and more often, are subjected to the harshest prison regimes, most 
recently the 41bis.
On October 20, Alfredo Cospito began a hunger strike to the bitter end to be 
removed from the 41Bis regime, while other * prisoners * also began a hunger 
strike in solidarity.

We support their struggle as well as all the struggles carried out by prisoners 
in all prisons to demand less oppressive conditions of existence, for the 
definitive 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 for 
freedom and social justice is stronger than anything.

November 20, 2022
Correspondence Commission of the Italian Anarchist Federation
****
Turin Anarchist Federation
Corso Palermo 46
Meetings every Tuesday at 21

www.anarresinfo.org

https://www.anarresinfo.org/torino-per-un-mondo-senza-stati-e-galere/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Subscribe/Unsubscribe https://ainfos.ca/mailman/listinfo/a-infos-en
Archive: http://ainfos.ca/en