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Italy: 50 prison suicides, 16 more than in 2023 says Ombudsman
“This is a high figure compared to the same month of July in 2023 and 2022, when 34 were recorded (with an increase of 16 deaths)” read the guarantor’s report. “There are 48 men and 2 women, 27 are Italian and 23 foreigners, from 14 different countries. Of the people who took their own lives, 19 (3…Italy: the country plans prison crackdown that pushes Western boundaries
Prisoners in the northern Italian city of Parma are on hunger strike over poor sanitation and overcrowding, the latest in a spate of protests in the country’s jails where cases of suicide and self-harm are at an all-time high. Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government has responded by threatening to m…
Italie : En prison, “la génération de mafiosi la plus cultivée de tous les temps”
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Italia: Italia investigará sus cárceles tras la difusión de un vídeo que exhibe las palizas de oficiales a los presos
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Italia: 52 warders arrested over prison lockdown violence
Italian police on Monday arrested 52 prison officers on suspicion of mistreating prisoners in quelling a riot sparked by a case of COVID-19 among inmates in the middle of the first virus lockdown last year. Naples police sent in special penitentiary police forces after the April 6 riot at the jail…Italia: detenidos en Francia siete exmiembros de las Brigadas Rojas italianas
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Italie: en prison avec des djihadistes, Cesare Battisti démarre une grève de la faim
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Italy: government looks to reverse flood of mafiosi leaving jail over coronavirus
ROME (Reuters) - Elderly mobsters recently let out of jail over fears they might catch the new coronavirus in Italy’s overcrowded prisons may soon be put back behind bars, Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede said on Wednesday following an outcry. Some 376 mafiosi and drug dealers have been allowed to…Italy: l'Etat critiqué pour ses conditions de détention dans un rapport du Conseil de l'Europe
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Italy : the "torture room" in Poggioreale prison
“Room Zero” is known as one of the worst places to be sent if you are an inmate of the jail in Poggioreale, Naples. Officially this room is an isolation room; unofficially, “Room Zero” is a torture chamber. An investigation has been launched into the crimes allegedly committed by 23 people (22 pris…