Secondigliano Prison

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Secondigliano Prison (Italian: Carcere di Secondigliano), officially the "Pasquale Mandato" Penitentiary Centre (Italian: Centro penitenziario "Pasquale Mandato"), is a prison in Naples, Italy, located in the Scampia district at via Roma verso Scampia, 350. With a state-owned area of roughly 40 hectares (about 384,000 m²), it is one of the largest penitentiary complexes in Italy, and it houses mostly prisoners held under the high-security circuit and the 41-bis regime of the Italian penitentiary system. Although officially named after "Secondigliano", the prison actually stands within the territory of the Scampia district. Since 16 May 2016 the prison has been named after Pasquale Mandato, a chief marshal of the Corps of Custodial Agents (Corpo degli agenti di custodia) who was killed in a Camorra ambush on 5 March 1983. While serving at the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, where he was head of the registry office and deputy commander, Mandato was killed shortly before starting his shift; he had previously received threats connected to his work in a prison holding prominent members of organized crime. Michelangelo D'Agostino, the killer, was convicted for the murder. Mandato was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Civil Merit and recognized as a "victim of duty". The prison originated from a project that followed the 1975 reform of the Italian penitentiary system and was built using modern techniques; it was inaugurated and handed over to the penitentiary administration in 1991. Its opening came during the phase of maximum expansion of Italy's prison population in the 1990s, during which the number of inmates in the country doubled. The complex, among the largest in Italy, is arranged in several building units: two two-storey blocks with about 200 places each (named "Adriatico" and "Tirreno"), two three-storey blocks with about 300 places each ("Ionio" and "Ligure"), two sections linked by long corridors (T1 and T2), and an infirmary.