The radical Turco retraces that controversial relationship between the left and the 41-bis

He, secretary of the Radical Party, has always said he was against it. But in 1992, the prison regime born in an emergency situation wanted to stabilize. And even today the dems do not intend to question its existence

Many years ago, when the 41-bis crystallized out of the post-mafia massacre emergency and was stabilized as a hard detention regime, Maurizio Turco and Sergio D’Elia, currently secretary of the Radical Party and of the “Hands Off Cain” association respectively, made a long trip to the prisons, to survey the physical and mental state of the prisoners subjected to 41-bis. The result was a book with an eloquent title: “State torture. Investigation on ‘The community of the 41-bis real’ ”, with a preface by Marco Pannella (ed. Marsilio).