La salute in carcere: un driver di (re)integrazione dentro e fuori le mura

The issue of prisons health in Italian prisons is an important management objective for penitentiary institutions whose purpose today is to re-educate the person in custody and to encourage the social re-insertion. The passage of prison health by the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Health, governed by the Prime Minister's Decree in 2008, represents an important milestone on the path to the protection of the prison conditions, which now can rise to the same health care of free citizens. This paper sets a goal that is already contained in the title: exploring how to protect the health of those detained may be a driver not only of social re-insertion, but also of territorial integration from an organizational perspective. The analysis started by the definition of "health" and, in particular, what organizational system legally recognized and appointed to ensure the protection of this right, observing the evolution and for free people and for those held. But if it really fits the concept of health as defined by WHO as a condition of mental and physical well-being of the person, how is it possible that this can be pursued in a context devoid of the prerequisites of the important determinants of health? What is possible to do to overcome this gap? To answer these questions, the analysis has shifted inside prisons, as if to imagine trying to break down, as far as possible, the thick wall not only physical, that has separated (and probably continues to separate) detainees by the "external." So that, in fact, the prison facilities are able to implementing this new idea of treatment is necessary that even the organizational structure of the entire government machinery is consistent with this objective. .. [edited by Author]