L’life imprisonment, i.e. the absolute impossibility for those convicted of mafia crimes (excluding legal collaborators) to be able to access the penitentiary benefits granted to other prisoners, was decided in 1992, as an emergency response to the situation that had arisen after the Capaci massacre . It was an understandable measure, like the adoption of a hard prison (through 41 bis), in a situation of absolute emergency. The fact remains that he violated the constitutional principles of equality of citizens before the law and the rehabilitation function of prison detention. A country can adopt extraordinary legislation in extraordinary times. To deny it would be a foolish adherence to the principle of fiat iustitia et pereat mundus.
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