Four meetings on legality and the social rehabilitation of prisoners

Several meetings of the Trento Festival of Economics, scheduled from 22 to 25 May 2025, are dedicated to the themes of legality and justice. Legality, not by chance, represents a sort of fil rouge that runs through the entire twentieth edition of the Festival. Legality declined under multiple profiles: from the prevention and combating of crimes to the fight against cybercrime, from the reintegration of prisoners into society through training and work to measures to prevent heinous crimes such as the exploitation of people and the international trafficking of human beings (migrants and refugees in primis).

In this context, regulatory systems have a fundamental impact on the administration of justice and the proper functioning of trials, which are also a deterrent to re-offending. After all, the competitiveness of a country system is also based on its ability to attract foreign investors, who primarily demand certainty of rules and effective administration of justice in the event of disputes.

This is why reforms, in particular the justice system, are a linchpin of the NRP, a conditio sine qua non of fundamental importance for the disbursement of European development funds.

Another key issue is the perimeter of offences, particularly on the hot front of corruption. Shifting this perimeter, which is so sensitive, can send the message of ongoing deregulation, incentivising domestic and international crimes. This seems to be happening in the United States, where President Trump has suspended - with an executive order - the application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Fcpa), the law that since 1977 has prohibited American companies from bribing foreign officials to obtain business advantages.

Equally important is the topic of the social rehabilitation of prisoners, through training and work. A meeting will be dedicated to this topic on Thursday 22 May: Renato Brunetta, president of the National Council for Economy and Labour (Cnel) will discuss with Manuela Perrone (journalist of the Sole 24 Ore newspaper) on 'School, work, training in prison and outside with the objective of zero recidivism'.