RRome, 27 Oct. (askanews) – The speaker is a girl who has lived in prison: one of the protagonists of “Cattivi, the children’s prisons seen from the inside”, the new podcast that tells the story of the juvenile penal system through the voices of the minors who experience it and of those who accompany them every day on this journey both in prison and outside, created by Antigone and Next New Media for the in-depth journalistic series 11Decimi.
Susanna Marietti is the national coordinator of Antigonethe association that has been fighting for years for rights and guarantees in the penal system: “It gives a voice to these kids who always have too little of it, especially in recent years. Italian juvenile criminal justice has a great tradition, it was a model that all of Europe looked to precisely for its ability to adopt an educational approach and not a merely punitive and repressive one, truly capable of bringing kids back to society. Today, especially after the new rules of the Caivano decree, this is no longer the case: prisons juveniles are in crazy degradation and these kids spend their days locked in prison from morning to night and when they get out they will have no prospects.”
He also took part in the presentation of the podcast at La Città dell’Altra Economia in Rome Ludovico Di Martino, director of the fifth season of Mare Fuori, who has already collaborated with Antigone in the past: “The thing that certainly struck me and moved me the most is finding in the voices of these kids that you listen to and don’t even associate with a face or face is this widespread feeling, this belief that they have that what they say doesn’t matter to anyone, and therefore perceiving this very strong need to listen.”
(Detention facilities image credit: Antigone)
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