Minister Nordio's changing opinions
Prisons and reforms
What I don't like about Nordio is that he's made shocking statements about prison suicides and overcrowding. Here, it seems to me, the change of heart was sudden and completely unjustified. But no one is shocked.
The ANM (Magistrates' Association) yesterday launched a polemic against Minister Nordio because it discovered that in 1994 Nordio, who was a rather well-known magistrate, signed an appeal against the separation of careers.
All the online newspapers gave it ample coverage. I must confess: if I remember correctly, in 1994 (or perhaps a couple of years earlier) I was also against the separation of careers. Today I'm certain I was wrong. The separation of careers is sacrosanct. And failure to separate is unconstitutional. That Nordio has changed his views over the past 31 years, while also completely transforming the relationship between the judiciary and society, and while the prosecutors' offices were assuming disproportionate and satrapal power over society and the state, seems to me to be a good and just thing. One of which the minister can be proud.
What I don't like about Nordio is that he signed laws increasing sentences, instituting new crimes, banning marches, and prohibiting nonviolent disobedience, and then made shocking statements about prison suicides, overcrowding, and the fact that he opposes pardons and amnesty , and early release ( the Giachetti law ) , and that he supports the arrest of migrants who have committed no crime, and so on. Here, it seems to me, the change of opinion was sudden and completely unjustified. But no one is shocked.
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