Many mafia inmates subjected to the harsh prison regime (pursuant to Article 41-bis of Law No. 354 of July 26, 1975) are held in the Fornelli prison on Asinara Island in Sardinia. Among those held is Totò Riina. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the head of the new organized Camorra, Raffaele Cutolo, was also held there. For exercise, small courtyards are set aside in the Fornelli prison and in the Cala d’Oliva bunker (where Riina, Cutolo, and Leoluca Bagarella were incarcerated) to ensure that inmates have no direct contact with one another. Asinara prison can be considered a sort of second Alcatraz, as only one inmate managed to escape there (on September 1, 1986) in its 112 years of operation (compared to 14 escape attempts at Alcatraz): Matteo Boe, a Sardinian kidnapper. His accomplice, Salvatore Duras, was captured, while Boe managed to escape on a rubber dinghy. This makes Asinara the prison with the fewest escapes in the world.
