This work analyses the benefits that physical activity could bring in a hard context such as the prison one. After an explanation of the fundamentals of the Italian Penitentiary System, essential to understand the possibilities that professionals that interact with that world have, the authors expose the psychophysical conditions that a prisoner suffers from the very first months of conviction. It will then be purposed a selected literature which shows how different physical activities could improve that conditions and, moreover, how they can be concretely useful for the aims of the prison sentence: re-education and re-socialization. These previous argumentations allow the authors to hope for greater attention to sports activities in prison and to lay the foundations for further empirical studies in the prison context.
Keywords Prison; physical activities; public health; conditions of detention
Zanetti, M., & Macrí, F. (2020). Prison and physical activities in Italy: practices and utilities for the creation of new proposals. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 20(1), 235-241. https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2020.01031
