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Italy: Giorgia Meloni wants more people in jail. Prisons are already on the brink
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks set to send more people to jail with her law-and-order crackdown — but the country’s prisons are in no fit state to take more incarcerated people.
Source: Politico (02/07/2025)