The paper is focused on the Italian experience of counteraction to the organized crime organizations (mafia, Cosa Nostra, Ndrgangheta, Camorra) based on so called the «41-bis» system.

An Article 41-bis of the Prison Administration Act (Italy), also known as «carcere duro», is a provision of the national Italian legislation that allows the Minister of Justice or the Minister of the Interior to impose a strict prison regime of certain categories of prisoners who are sentenced for committing of different Mafia-type crimes (membership and active role in the Mafia-type organizations, drug trafficking, homicide, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, terrorism, and attempting to subvert the constitutional ... Читати далі »