Torino / Turin, Corso Brunelleschi, Piedmont

Torino / Turin, Corso Brunelleschi, Centro di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio (CPR) (formerly Centro di Identificazione ed Espulsione(CIE)

Italy

Status

In use

2025

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Dipartimento per le libertà civili e l'immigrazione, Dipartimento per le libertà civili e l'immigrazione / Direzione Centrale dei Servizi Civili per L'immigrazione e L'asilo

Management: Sanitalia group (Private For-Profit)

Detains: Adult men, Adult women, Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Deaths at facility
20
806

31 December 2022

Yes

30 December 2021

Italy

6,667

Migration Detainees

6,383

Migration Detainee Entries

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FACILITY NAMES
Torino / Turin, Corso Brunelleschi, Centro di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio (CPR) (formerly Centro di Identificazione ed Espulsione(CIE)
Location

Country: Italy

City & Region: Torino / Turin, Corso Brunelleschi, Piedmont, Europe

Latitude, Longitude: 44.9803098, 7.4450764

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
Temporarily closed
2024
Temporarily closed
2023
In use
2021
In use
2019
In use
2015
In use
2014
In use
2012
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2021
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2016
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2012
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Centro di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio
2021
Centro di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio
2018
Centro di Identificazione ed Espulsione (CIE)
2016
Management
Management
Type
Year
Sanitalia group
Private For-Profit
2025
Ors Italia S.r.l.
Private For-Profit
2024
Ors Italia S.r.l.
Private For-Profit
2023
Gepsa
Private For-Profit
2023
Ors Italia S.r.l.,
Private For-Profit
2022
Gepsa and Associazione Culturale Arcuinto
Private For-Profit
2021
Gepsa and Associazione Culturale Arcuinto
Private For-Profit
2016
Prefettura di Torino
Government-local
2016
Italian Red Cross
Private Not-For-Profit
2012
Prefettura di Torino
Governmental
2012
Custodial Authorities
Agency
Ministry
Ministry type
Year
Dipartimento per le libertà civili e l'immigrazione
Ministry of the Interior
Interior or Home Affairs
2016
Dipartimento per le libertà civili e l'immigrazione / Direzione Centrale dei Servizi Civili per L'immigrazione e L'asilo
Ministero dell'Interno
Interior or Home Affairs
2012
Area of Operations
Regional Jurisdiction
Year
Prefettura di Torino
2016
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
1999

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult men

2012

Adult women

2012
Categories of detainees

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2016

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2012

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 20

2025

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 210

2024

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 210

2023

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 210

2022

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 180

2021

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 175

2018

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 180

2016

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 210

2014

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 180

2012
Migration Detainee Entries

Number 235

2023
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
806
31 December 2022
90
29 December 2016
38
19 September 2014
134
21 December 2011

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2016

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2012
Maximum Legal Length of Detention (days)
Days
Year
540
2024

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2025
2021
Reports of riots or other unrest

Yes

2025

Yes

2023

Yes

2021

CARCERAL INDICATORS

Carceral Environment

Yes

2024
External Security Regime

Secure

2016

Secure

2012

STAFF

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Yes

2012
Legal Segregation

No

2017

CELLS

Security/Isolation Cells

Yes

2021

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

Indoor Communal Space

No

2021
Skills Development for Adults

No

2021
Language Classes

No

2021

HEALTH

Nurse on Duty

Infrequent

2021
Psychologist Visits

Infrequent

2021
Barriers to care
Barriers to Care
Obvs. Date
Lack of record keepingInadequate food or water provision
2021
Reports of Deaths
Name of deceased individual
Date of death
Moussa Balde
30 December 2021
N.A.
May 2021
N.A.
2019
N.A.
2 June 2006
Reports of self-harming
Self harm reported
Incident/Report date
Yes
Yes
May
Health Impacts
Health Impacts
Obvs. Date
DeathsSelf-harming
2021

MONITORING & ACCESS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Access to Personal Cell Phones

No

2024

No

2021

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2025

"On 24 March 2025, the Turin CPR officially reopened with an initial capacity of 20 places."

2023

"In March 2023, the CPR in Turin was temporarily closed following several riots that progressively made its spaces unfit for use, ultimately forcing the transfer of all detained persons to other facilities."

2021

"In September 2021, its isolation section known as Ospedaletto was closed down, following the report of the visit of the National Guarantor – which took place shortly after a migrant, Moussa Balde, committed suicide in the isolation section in May 2021 –, who had deemed detention in this area as an inhumane and degrading treatment and called for its immediate and definitive closure."