On Thursday 29 January 2026 at 4:00 p.m., the Archives’ conference room will host the presentation of the book “Prison architecture from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Projects, models and experiments in Sardinia”.
Following the institutional greetings from the Director of the State Archives, the speakers will be Marco Cadinu, Maria Francesca Cortesi and Roberto Ibba of the University of Cagliari. The editors and authors of the book will attend.

The book “Prison architecture from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Projects, models and experiments in Sardinia” and the book “Prisons between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Doctrine, legislation and application”, which will be presented at the same venue on Thursday 19 February 2026, are the outcome of research carried out under the PRIN programme (Research Projects of Significant National Interest), funded by the Ministry of Universities and Research, entitled “Punish, reform, reintegrate. Penal institutions through criminal science, prison law, prison administration, work, health and hygiene treatment and architecture: three case studies on the ‘island of punishment’ during the Kingdom of Italy (the San Bartolomeo penal colony, the Castiadas penal colony and Buoncammino prison)”.