Doglio: 'Real estate valorisation of historic prisons, not just new cells'
The Special Commissioner for Prison Construction: '9,696 places in three years; 758 million in works, some already financed'
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- Numbers and costs of the plan
- On the market for historical institutes?
- Prison not only container
- Delays
- Renovations, new construction and property development
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He compares it to a 'matryoshka', an interlocking of old and new interventions, 'in collaboration with Dap, Juvenile Justice and MIT, under the direction of Palazzo Chigi'. For "a structural response to overcrowding". Awaited for months, preceded and followed by criticism, the penitentiary building plan arrives at the Council of Ministers with the ambition of "not just building cells, but recovering dignity, security, and functionality," assures the extraordinary commissioner for penitentiary building, Marco Doglio. Also "through a large-scale real estate valorisation", the manager called by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti to speed up the procedures, tells IlSole24ore.
Commissioner, let us be clear about the numbers of places available immediately and the costs?
9,696 over the next three years in 60 building interventions, at an estimated cost of 758 million, largely already covered. In addition to these, a further 5,000 places are to be added by upgrading and transforming institutions that are no longer functional, with the aim of creating new places through the construction of new prisons or the expansion of existing ones, bringing the overall response to the need to approximately 15,000 prison places.
New prisons, to be built where? Is the sale of historical institutions also being considered? Idea examined in the past by Cdp?
We are talking about valorisation and transformation, not sale. We are carrying out a census - for example of cadastral constraints - for important prisons in the city centre or with a sea view, potentially subject to urban development. We are then evaluating the possibility of moving prisoners to more modern sites, close to other institutions. We prepare the ground, the rest at a later stage. Also a reflection on real estate funds: as they exist for student halls of residence and RSAs, there could be for prisons.
