"The possibility of the prison being emptied and renovated to create a facility exclusively for inmates under the 41-bis regime is concrete and imminent. If confirmed, it would be a very serious decision for Nuoro and the entire region."

Regional President Alessandra Todde echoes the concerns of the Bishop of Nuoro, Monsignor Antonello Mura, regarding the Badu 'e Carros prison: according to leaks, the Barbagia prison could be emptied to accommodate only maximum-security inmates. Mafiosi and terrorists, therefore, like the 92 inmates destined for the soon-to-be-opened wing of the Uta prison.

In Nuoro, "it wouldn't be a temporary intervention, but a structural decision, made without any consultation with the Region. A punishment for a city, a region, and an island that are struggling to get back on its feet."

On December 3, Todde wrote to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to protest the transfer of a large number of prisoners under the 41-bis regime to Sardinia, but received no response. "Earlier, I had asked the Minister of Justice to initiate a formal discussion, which was guaranteed but then disregarded. Not only was I not given any answers or reassurances, but I was accused of alarmism."

The governor calls it "unacceptable that an entire prison be renovated and dedicated exclusively to this regime, concentrating costs, risks, and burdens in Sardinia that fall on local communities. On the entire island."

An island "that dreams of redemption with the Einstein Telescope, yet is condemned without appeal to mafia infiltration. Sardinia already hosts the highest number of prisoners under the 41-bis regime relative to its population, all of them non-Sardinians. Do the Sardinians who support this government want to be complicit in this abomination or raise their voices to say it's time to end it? Insularity cannot be used as our condemnation," he concludes.

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