Giacomo was born and lived two years in prison

Locked up in Rebibbia prison with his mother, he can't talk or play with anyone. How will he get out?

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Giacomo is only two years old and has lived in prison his entire life. He lives in a daycare center in Rebibbia prison, accompanied by his mother, a thirty-year-old Italian woman who, like her husband, is serving a sentence for minor crimes. Giacomo's days are all the same, and he's always alone. He has no one to play with, talk to, or spend time with, and his only human contact is with his mother and a few outings during the day, when volunteers from the association come to pick him up. In Rome together – Leda Colombini. The nursery units, although they try to be equipped to avoid trauma for the children, are still within prisons. There are also, but sporadic, institutions with attenuated custody (ICAM) for detained mothers: currently, there are only five in Italy. Faced with Giacomo's sad and melancholic story, a question remains, to which no one can give a definitive answer: How will this child leave prison? 

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