Susanna Marietti entered the Pratello, Bologna's juvenile prison in May last year, and found garbage on the walls: food remains, butts, cables ripped off. At the back of the corridor, a 17-year-old boy with psychiatric problems, only in a cell slightly larger than a storage room. Broken window, mattress without sheets, a pestilent blanket, puddles of dirty water. "Before the Italian system was not like that, re-education was sought and the deten…
Susanna Marietti entered the Pratello, Bologna's juvenile prison in May last year, and found garbage on the walls: food remains, butts, cables ripped off. At the back of the corridor, a 17-year-old boy with psychiatric problems, only in a cell slightly larger than a storage room. Broken window, mattress without sheets, a pestilent blanket, puddles of dirty water. "Before the Italian system was not like that, re-education was sought and the deten…