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ostativo

English translation: hard prison regime

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Italian term or phrase:ostativo
English translation:hard prison regime

13:55 Feb 12, 2017
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Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Italian term or phrase: ostativo
a maggior ragione in un carcere come quello di Opera, cioè in un carcere in prevalenza ostativo, di ergastoli senza scampo: noi sappiamo che i detenuti moriranno in carcere.
Sabina Moscatelli
Italy
Local time: 08:27
"hard prison regime"
Explanation:
Ciao Sabina,

ecco alcune link di riferimento:

https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Article 41-bis pris...

In Italian law, Article 41-bis of the Prison Administration Act (also known as Italy's "hard prison regime") is a provision that allows the Minister of Justice or the Minister of the Interior to suspend certain prison regulations. Currently it is used against people imprisoned for particular crimes: Mafia involvement; drug-trafficking; homicide; aggravated robbery and extortion; kidnapping; importation, buying, possession or cession of huge amounts of drugs; and crimes committed for terrorism or for subversion of the constitutional system.[1] It is suspended only when a prisoner co-operates with the authorities, when a court annuls it, or when a prisoner dies. The Surveillance Court of Rome is the court competent on nationwide level on appeals against the 41-bis decree.[2]

Restrictive measures

The system was essentially intended to cut inmates off completely from their original milieu and to separate them from their former criminal associates. Measures normally include bans on:

the use of the telephone;
all association or correspondence with other prisoners;
meetings with third parties;
receiving or sending sums of money over a set amount;
receiving parcels (other than those containing linen) from the outside;
organising cultural, recreational or sporting activities;
voting or standing in elections for prisoner representatives; and
taking part in arts-and-crafts activities, etc.,

as well as restrictions on visits from members of the family (once per month and visitors are only allowed to communicate by intercom through thick glass). [3] [4]

Same explanation on WIKI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_41-bis_prison_regime
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another option might be *jail without parole* but in my view it does not convey enough the strict regime of article 41bis of the Italian law.

HTH
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tradu-grace
Italy
Local time: 08:27
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"hard prison regime"


Explanation:
Ciao Sabina,

ecco alcune link di riferimento:

https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Article 41-bis pris...

In Italian law, Article 41-bis of the Prison Administration Act (also known as Italy's "hard prison regime") is a provision that allows the Minister of Justice or the Minister of the Interior to suspend certain prison regulations. Currently it is used against people imprisoned for particular crimes: Mafia involvement; drug-trafficking; homicide; aggravated robbery and extortion; kidnapping; importation, buying, possession or cession of huge amounts of drugs; and crimes committed for terrorism or for subversion of the constitutional system.[1] It is suspended only when a prisoner co-operates with the authorities, when a court annuls it, or when a prisoner dies. The Surveillance Court of Rome is the court competent on nationwide level on appeals against the 41-bis decree.[2]

Restrictive measures

The system was essentially intended to cut inmates off completely from their original milieu and to separate them from their former criminal associates. Measures normally include bans on:

the use of the telephone;
all association or correspondence with other prisoners;
meetings with third parties;
receiving or sending sums of money over a set amount;
receiving parcels (other than those containing linen) from the outside;
organising cultural, recreational or sporting activities;
voting or standing in elections for prisoner representatives; and
taking part in arts-and-crafts activities, etc.,

as well as restrictions on visits from members of the family (once per month and visitors are only allowed to communicate by intercom through thick glass). [3] [4]

Same explanation on WIKI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_41-bis_prison_regime
-----------------

another option might be *jail without parole* but in my view it does not convey enough the strict regime of article 41bis of the Italian law.

HTH

tradu-grace
Italy
Local time: 08:27
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in FrenchFrench
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agree  Lisa Jane
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  -> thanks a lot Lisa
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