The article describes the groundbreaking experience of the e.s.t.i.a.cooperative, founded in 2004 to work inside the Prison of Milano-Bollate. The cooperative, which aims at acting as a bridge between "the inside" and "the outside" by promoting programmes for the socio-professional reintegration...

After a short outline of the post-war juridical background of the Italian penitentiary system, and notably of the 1975 Reform, the article describes how culture gradually entered Italian prisons' walls: from a steady increase in the offer of formal and university education, to the growing...

Human resources management has a central place within European management. The European Union’s demands are continuously increasing, asking more and more from human resources management in terms of knowledge, studying and generalization of experience, in the field of ordered development by...