Ragazzi dentro. Storie vere dal carcere minorile

In this collection of true stories, Maria Grazia Calandrone takes readers on an intense and poignant journey to the edges of legality, into the lives of adolescents marked by mistakes, fragility, and absences.
We meet Vanila, locked up in Rome after a burglary in an upper-middle-class apartment; Khaled, who sought freedom by defying the walls of the Beccaria hospital; Carmine, who in Nisida must deal with a gunshot to prove he’s not afraid.
And then Luisa and Roberta, stopped at the station with shattered dreams, and Matteo, forced to serve the silent sentence of having an arrested father.
From the cells of large penal institutions to provincial courts, prison enters their lives as a place of endless expectations, injustices, and difficult questions. Through a powerful and profoundly human narrative, the author gives voice to those “forgotten children” whom society too often views only through the lens of crime.
This book neither absolves nor accuses: it listens.
It is an invitation to the kids who are “outside”, to learn to look beyond prejudice, and to those who are “inside”, to remember that a mistake cannot erase the promise of what they can still become.