Badu 'e Carros is a high-security jailhouse in
Nuoro
Nuoro ( ; ) is a city and (municipality) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of Mount Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. With a population of 36,347 (2011), it is the sixth-largest city in Sardinia. Its ...
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Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
, Italy. It was opened in the 1970s and is located on the outskirts of the town. The jailhouse is mostly used for special kinds of prisoners like terrorists, highly dangerous mobsters and members of
Cosa Nostra
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (, ; "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. Emerging as a form of local protect ...
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'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta (, , ) is a mafia-type organized crime, criminal syndicate originating from the Calabria region of Italy. Gratteri & Nicaso, ''Fratelli di Sangue'', pp. 65–68 This body, also referred to as the Commission in reference to the ...
. As of 29 February 2024, 194 people are serving time there.
Notable inmates
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Luciano Leggio
Luciano Leggio (; 6 January 1925 – 15 November 1993) was an Italian criminal and leading figure of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the head of the Corleonesi, the Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone. He is universally known by ...
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Renato Vallanzasca
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Francis Turatello
Francesco Turatello (Asiago, 1944 – Nuoro, August 17, 1981) was an important Italian crime figure and mob boss who operated during the 1970s and early 1980s mainly in the city of Milan. He was popularly known by his pseudonym Francis Turat ...
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Antonio Iovine
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Pasquale Barra
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Attilio Cubeddu
Attilio Cubeddu (, ; born 2 March 1947) is a criminal from Sardinia who was a member of Anonima sarda, a term used for bandits engaged in various kinds of crime in the island, in particular kidnapping, from the 1960s onward.Antonelli & Nuzzi, ' ...
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Mullah Krekar
Najmadin Faraj Ahmad (, July 7, 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar (), is a Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar. He was a commander for the Peshmerga unit belonging to the Kurdistan Islamic Movement during the 1991 Iraqi uprisings. Later, he founded ...
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Graziano Mesina
Graziano Mesina (, also popularly known as ''Gratzianeddu'' in Sardinian; 4 April 1942 – 12 April 2025) was an Italian bandit of the Anonima sarda. He escaped the authorities at least 10 times. He was called the "king of the kidnappers" by '' ...
See also
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Article 41-bis prison regime
In Italian law, Article 41-bis of the Prison Administration Act, also known as carcere duro ("hard prison regime"), is a provision that allows the Minister of Justice or the Minister of the Interior to suspend certain prison regulations and impose ...
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Brigate Rosse
References
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Prisons in Italy