Ethical Problems Related to the Management of Young Immigrant detainees with Psychiatric disorders in Italian Prisons.

2010

The number of foreigners in Italian minor prisons is quite large and it varies in relation to the geographical position. First of all, we must clarify a few points: a minor prison is a judicial system of detention for people between 14 and 21. Before the age of 14, teenagers cannot be put on trial in Italy. In the minor prison of Palermo the 40-50% of the detainees are people coming from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, but young people from Southern America, Albania and Romany are present too. Albanians and Romanians move to eastern Italy, usually. The immigrant detainees are often illegal refugees or children of a first generation of immigrants who easily deviate from law in order to sur…