SECRETARIAT, RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMUNICATION AND VOLUNTEERS
Giulia Troncatti
Giulia Troncatti founded the Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti and since 2021 has been a university tutor in Milan's prisons. In Hands Off Cain she is part of the Secretariat, responsible for communication and volunteers.
The path
She graduated in Philology, Literature and Ancient History from the Università degli Studi di Milano. Between 2023 and 2025 she taught literature in several secondary schools in Milan.
Since 2021 she has worked as a university tutor for the Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan's prisons, supporting the right to study of people deprived of their liberty; she has helped run the teaching workshops of the prison university hub and edited the proceedings of the training cycle "Oltre i limiti, formare e formarsi in carcere".
She is attending the Master in Deviance, Justice System and Social Services at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and the Master in Strategic Philanthropy at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice.
In Hands Off Cain
She is part of the Secretariat of Hands Off Cain, responsible for communication and volunteers. She founded and chairs the Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti, with which Hands Off Cain visits Italian prisons.
Milestones
- Education
- Degree in Philology, Literature and Ancient History, Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 2021
- University tutor in Milan's prisons for the Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 2023-2025
- Literature teacher in secondary schools in Milan.
- 2026
- Founds the Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti, which she chairs.
- Today
- Secretariat of Hands Off Cain, responsible for communication and volunteers.
- Ongoing
- Master in Deviance and Justice (Milano-Bicocca) and in Strategic Philanthropy (Ca’ Foscari).
Who carries the battle forward
The others.
President
Rita Bernardini
President of Hands Off Cain, for more than fifty years a leading figure in the radical battles for civil rights and for the dignity of people in prison. A nonviolent activist and former member of parliament, she has made hunger strikes and civil disobedience her tools of political action.
Secretary
Sergio D’Elia
Co-founder (1993) and Secretary of Hands off Cain, a nonviolent leader, former member of parliament and author of investigative books on the distortions of the anti-mafia legal system.
Treasurer
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Co-founder (1993) and Treasurer of Hands off Cain (since 2003), former member of parliament and member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).
TREASURY, WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDRAISING AND THE INTERNET
Alberto Maria Genovese
Entrepreneur. Founder of Facile.it and Prima Assicurazioni. Co-founder of the Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS