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Italy’s early experiences
The first collection of prison objects was assembled in Rome and displayed in the school for prison guards that was founded in 1873 and housed in the Mantellate Prison.
Some years later, on the initiative of the Inspector General of Prisons, and future Director General, Martino Beltrani Scalia, anatomical exhibits, models of prisons and means of restraint were added to the collection, in the hope that it could be transformed into a real museum in the future.
In the last decades of the nineteenth century the practice became widespread of mounting, within the sphere of international penitentiary congresses, exhibitions at which the participating states presented the agricultural, handicraft and manufactured goods produced in their prisons; architectural models of penitentiaries; and the results of studies on health and on disease prevention in prisons.
In Italy the first exhibition of prison products was held in 1885, within the ambit of the International Penitentiary Congress in Rome; there were further exhibitions until 1912.
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