Since 1986, he has been engaged in the penitentiary architecture field with a powerfully innovative vision. He is the author of the Reorganization and Space Rehabilitation of the Turin Minor Criminal Institute and the Guide Lines and the concept ideas for the New Prison of Bolzano. Not least, Cesare Burdese conceived the new prison accommodating for the Mothers and their children, where he also designed the Furniture, (ICAM) in Turin and the Prison of the San Marino Republic, and the so-called "Yellow Spaces" waiting room: a unique furnishings in Italian prisons. He was a member of the Ministry Commission for Penitentiary Interventions 2013 and a member of the Table for the Penal Spaces, inside the General States for the Criminal Execution in Italy: "Architecture and Prison."