Introduction. Freedom constraints in coercitive closed environments such as a jail always cause problems with sadness, loneliness, abandonment causing to a grater or lesser degree, stable depressive phenomena or general psychological uneasiness. An aspect which has been inadequately assessed up to now in literature is that of eating disorders. Such pathologies in this last twenty years have been increasingly affecting different age bands with various relational-existential problems at the individual level. Materials and methods. For this reason we have thought about observing such phenomena within structures where different aspects regarding food, body perceptions, space and above all freedom are altered. The group from us taken in examination originates from four jail of Sicily. Three tests of self-administration have been delivered: Zung for the anxiety, Zung for the depression and EDI-1 modified to 38 items. Conclusions. Our study has shown that there are some meaningful correlations between freedom restrictions regime and some dimensions that interest the pathogenesis of eating disorders. We did not find evidence of eating disorders in a narrow sense but observed changed attitudes towards food and relationships with one's own body image
