Sardinia: how this area actually works
Cagliari is the regional capital on the south coast. Sassari and the north look toward the Costa Smeralda, which is a resort, not a prison system. Nuoro is inland. Oristano faces the west. A person arrested in Olbia is not held on a yacht quay. Police custody is not the colloquio. DAP assigns an istituto that may be anywhere on the island or, after classification, on the mainland. giustizia.it will not search a surname. Ask the lawyer which address is current before you book a ferry to the wrong port. The island’s courts do not share one visiting room.
Families treat Sardinia as a summer trip attached to Rome or Milan because the flights are short. A Lazio permission and a Lombardy permission do not open a Sardinian gate. Women and young people may be placed off the island. This page is not a roll of detenuti. If the papers name Regina Coeli or San Vittore, you are going to the mainland and the ferry is the wrong plan. Confirm the week of travel. A release to an address in Alghero or Quartu ends the prison visit. The regional offices will not search a surname for a relative.
Colloqui need authorisation and identification. This guide copies no orario. Ferries cancel in weather, and the gate does not hold a slot for a missed ship. Money and parcels follow DAP rules for that istituto. If the person moves to the mainland, start again. Use the municipality on the letter. A postcard of the Costa Smeralda will not get you through the door, and a hotel in Porto Cervo is useless when the istituto is in Cagliari, Sassari, or Nuoro. Read the street before you leave the port. Oristano does not share that desk. Confirm the province on the letter before you pay today.
Finding someone held in Sardinia
Confirm the istituto and the city. Sardinia is not Lazio and not Lombardy. There is no public name search.
Cagliari and Sassari are different days. The resort coast is not the default gate. Match the letterhead.
Visits and family practicalities
Follow giustizia.it for the named istituto. Bring identification. This page lists no hours.
A Cagliari permission does not open Sassari. Lawyers use their own route. If the ferry is cancelled, only the istituto can move the slot.
Getting around Sardinia
Cagliari, Olbia, and Alghero have airports. Ferries run from the mainland to Olbia, Porto Torres, Golfo Aranci, and Cagliari, depending on the season. The istituto is not the quay. Use official directions, not a cruise or yacht pin.
Drivers face long inland roads between north and south. A hotel on the Costa Smeralda or in Alghero’s old town is the wrong base unless the papers name that town. Rome is another region. Leave a full day between the port and a southern gate. Read the municipality twice before you pay, and do not follow a beach map to the gate. Nuoro is not Cagliari. Leave the afternoon clear of the coast, and keep the permission with the postcode before the last bus. Oristano is not Sassari. Do not sleep in Olbia because the ferry arrives there today. The nuraghi are not a visiting room. Alghero is not Cagliari. Leave a spare hour after the ferry today, and read the port twice. Olbia is not the south today.
