Italy's prison overcrowding became world news in early March 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak sparked riots in prisons across the country, causing the death of 13 inmates. As a crisis narrative, the COVID-19 pandemic made visible the deep, ongoing crisis of Italy's prison system and disclosed new conditions for critical thought on the restorative potential of the penitentiary system. This article first describes the impact of COVID-19 on Adriano Sofri's ‘no prison’ writings, starting from his column in Il Foglio on the prison uprisings in March that followed the announcement of the anti-COVID measures; it subsequently analyses the Italian response to the pandemic from an internal, practitioner-led perspective. By offering both a dialectic and an immanent perspective, it aims to develop new ways of understanding the detention system and enhance the social credibility of the penitentiary system in Italy beyond the constraints of COVID and the emergency logic.

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讲述新冠肺炎和意大利的囚禁：“没有监狱”的著作和监狱的恢复潜力


2020 年 3 月上旬，意大利监狱人满为患成为世界新闻，当时 COVID-19 疫情引发全国各地监狱骚乱，导致 13 名囚犯死亡。作为一种危机叙事，新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行凸显了意大利监狱系统持续存在的深刻危机，并揭示了对监狱系统恢复潜力进行批判性思考的新条件。本文首先描述了 COVID-19 对阿德里亚诺·索弗里 (Adriano Sofri) 的“无监狱”著作的影响，从他在 Il Foglio 发表的关于 3 月份反 COVID 措施宣布后发生的监狱起义的专栏开始；随后，它从内部、以实践者为主导的角度分析了意大利对这一流行病的反应。通过提供辩证和内在的视角，它旨在开发理解拘留系统的新方法，并超越新冠病毒和紧急逻辑的限制，提高意大利监狱系统的社会可信度。