Criminal enforcement court
Criminal enforcement courts ( . It Tribunale di Sorveglianza , dt. Literally "monitor Court") in Italy special courts , the decisions in the context of criminal enforcement meet. Their tasks can be compared with those of the penal enforcement chambers at the regional courts in Germany .
Jurisdiction
The Italian criminal enforcement judiciary ( magistratura di sorveglianza ) is responsible for monitoring the execution of sentences. It makes decisions in the area of imprisonment and alternative sentences. These include decisions to relax the prison system , to open prison systems , to suspension , disciplinary measures , rewards and individual rehabilitation measures . It reports to the Ministry of Justice on the conditions of detention and other events in the penal institutions and decides on complaints against the institutions.
In the judicial districts of the courts of appeal ( Corte d'appello , Higher Regional Court ) there is one criminal enforcement court. There are also other subordinate penal enforcement bodies ( Ufficio di Sorveglianza ) in the judicial district . The latter are formed by the regional courts if there are penal institutions in their districts .
The criminal enforcement courts in the first instance jurisdiction in all matters that are not the responsibility of the subordinate criminal enforcement agencies. For the latter, the criminal enforcement courts form the appeal instance . The Court of Cassation in Rome can review decisions of the criminal enforcement courts for legal errors and if necessary set them aside .
Criminal enforcement courts are collegial courts . The tribunals consist of two professional judges, one of whom comes from the responsible subordinate enforcement agency, and two experts from the fields of psychology , social work , pedagogy or clinical psychiatry and criminology, as well as lecturers in criminology . The subordinate penal enforcement agencies consist of one or more professional judges who decide as single judges .