Con quale formazione, in un tempo di cambiamenti sociali? Operatori penitenziari e trattamento dei soggetti extracomunitari privati della libertà personale

ABSTRACT With what training, in a time of social changes? Prison operators and treatment of non-EU citizens deprived of personal liberty The lives of foreign inmates in Italian prisons present unique challenges, as they bring with them cultural, linguistic and behavioral diversity. These inmates, who often come from socially marginalized backgrounds, face different issues and higher barriers than Italian inmates, highlighting a disparity between theoretically fair treatment, provided by law, and the practical reality. It is important to promote intercultural training for all workers in the penitentiary system, equipping them with the necessary tools to manage diversity, promote inclusion, reduce prejudice, improve prison conditions, as well as a protective factor for the workers themselves. By protective factors for all prison workers we mean the activation and promotion of all those factors, those environmental, contextual, and even personal professional resources that are able to represent strategies for coping with phenomena that are very prevalent in complex and delicate work environments such as prison facilities, we refer in particular to work-related stress, burnout stressogenic processes and elements. A three-module training program is proposed, including emotional, cognitive and narrative aspects, designed with a view to continuous and updated training, capable of adapting to the changing context of criminal execution. Such an approach is fundamental to creating a more just and humane prison environment, with the goal of not only improving relations between prisoners and correctional staff, but also promoting individual and collective empowerment, improving equal opportunities and relational well-being within prisons. The constant appeal to the ‘humanization of punishments and their re-educative function must always be the focus of the commitment and work in the prison world and are the “red thread”, which connects the contributions present in our scientific article