O.p.g Criminal Asylum is photographer and editor Mauro D’Agati’s immersion in the psychiatric prisons of Napoli, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Castiglione delle Stiviere and Aversa, Italy, in 2001. A few years later these judicial psychiatric hospitals closed, an event that marks the history of the health care reform and custody system for people with mental illness in Italy. The struggle lasted 40 years, starting with the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978, also called Basaglia law, which aimed to reform the system.