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San Vittore Prison
San Vittore is a prison in the city center of Milan, Italy. Its construction started in 1872 and opened on 7 July 1879. The prison has place for 600 inmates, but it had 1036 prisoners in 2017. History The construction of the new prison was decided after the Italian unification, together with other infrastructure improvement works in Milan in the period between the unification and the city's first town plan of 1889. Until then, prisoners were detained in several other structures not designed as prisons, among them the former Sant'Antonio Abate convent, in the Courthouse and in the former San Vittore convent. For the construction of the new structure the government acquired terrains in the outskirts of the city, in a sparsely developed area at that time. The building, designed by the engineer Francesco Lucca, takes inspiration from the 18th century ''Panopticon'', with 6 wings with three floors each. The perimeter walls were originally built in medieval style, but they have almo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison In Milan
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, English language in England, standard English, Australian English, Australian, and Huron Historic Gaol, historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow or remand center, is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the State (polity), state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be Remand (detention), imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found Guilt (law), guilty of crimes at trial may be Sentence (law), sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
