Programa de pertenencia
The University of Milan, home to one of Europe’s leading Prison Education Projects in terms of number of students enrolled, quantity of activities and number of facilities involved, is committed to ensuring incarcerated individuals the right to higher education, through an Agreement signed with the Regional Procurement Office for the Department of Corrections in 2015. People detained at correctional centres in the Region wishing to undertake a course of university studies can enrol free of charge in one of the accessible courses, attend educational seminars (together with free students) inside the correctional facilities, take advantage of tutor services to help them in their studies, access the campus’ library network with special borrowing privileges, sit for exams and earn a degree within the prison. In seven years, the prisoner students of our University have gone from 5 to 145 (about 15% of the Italian total), and 33 degree programmes are involved in the project, across all 10 faculties. About 18% of students are foreigners, 9% are subject to alternative penal measures, 17% are on High Security programmes, and 7 are under the hard prison regime. In 2022 alone, prisoner students took a total of 198 exams.

Bio

Stefano Simonetta, Associate Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Rector’s Delegate for university study support for persons subject to restrictive measures of liberty in accordance to the Agreement signed with the Regional Procurement Office for the Department of Corrections (PRAP) and Head of Milan State University’s Prison Education Project (Progetto Carcere), since 2015. He is the author of a series of articles and essays on university teaching in prison.

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