18 December 2019 :
Prison of Opera (MI), 20-21 December 2019
Friday, December 20th
9:30 am Entrance to the prison
10:00 am Opening of the registrations at the Assembly
10:15 am Opening of the works, approval and establishment of the Presidency, approval of the Order of Works and the Regulations
10:30 am Institutional greetings:
- Silvio Di Gregorio, Director of the Opera House of Detention
- Pietro Buffa, Director of the Prison Administration of Lombardy
- Giovanna Di Rosa, President of the Milan Surveillance Court
- Mauro Palma, National Guarantor for the rights of persons detained or deprived of liberty
- Vinicio Nardo, President of the Milan Bar Association
11:00 am Reports:
- Sergio D’Elia, Secretary
- Elisabetta Zamparutti, Treasurer
- Rita Bernardini, President
Scheduled interventions
- Maurizio Turco, Secretary of the Radical Party
- Stefano Castellino, Mayor of Palma di Montechiaro
- Testimony of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
1.30pm - 2.00 pm Buffet break
2.00 pm Opening of the general debate
"The Right to Hope: the life sentence in the light of the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court"
Planned interventions of:
- Prof. Pasquale Bronzo, Associate of Criminal Procedure, La Sapienza University
- Avv. Maria Brucale, Managing Director of Hands Off Cain
- Dott. Riccardo De Vito, Sassari Magistrate, President of Magistratura Democratica
- Prof. Andreana Esposito, Associate of Criminal Law, University of Campania
- Prof. Davide Galliani, Associate of Institutions of public law at the University of Milan
- Avv. Andrea Mascherin, President of the National Bar Council
- Avv. Antonella Mascia, defender of Marcello Viola in the appeal to the EDU Court
- Prof. Valerio Onida, President Emeritus of the Constitutional Court
- Prof. Andrea Pugiotto, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Ferrara
- Sen. Roberto Rampi
- Avv. Matteo Zamboni, co-author of the collective appeal to the Human Rights Committee of the UN on life sentence
Saturday 21 December
9:30 am Resumption of the works and of the general debate
"Not so much a better criminal law, but something better than criminal law"
Planned interventions of:
- Father Guido Bertagna
- Dr. Gherardo Colombo
- Luigi Crespi
- Gioacchino Criaco, writer
- Prof. Luciano Eusebi, Professor of Criminal Law at the Catholic University “Sacro Cuore” in Milan
- Livio Ferrari, President of No Prison
- Fabio Pizzul, Councilor for the Lombardy Region, of the Prison Commission
- Carlo Lio, Regional Civic Defender and Guarantor of prisoners
- Tiziana Maiolo
- Diego Mazzola
- Avv. Beniamino Migliucci, former President of the Union of Criminal Chambers
- Mr. Giuseppe Morganti
- Dr. Luigi Pagano, former Head of the DAP
10.00 am Deadline for the presentation of general and particular motions
10:30 am Deadline for tabling amendments to motions and the list for the election of the Board of Directors
15:00 - Closing of the general debate
Voting: general motion; balance sheet and budget
Election of the Bodies: Presidency of Honor and Board of Directors which in turn elects the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Association.
