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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 leave…
Source — Reuters
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Italian prisons: facing the crisis
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The last weeks have been devastating for prisoners in Italy. The overcrowded Italian prison system found itself unprepared for the sanitary situation caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. Antigone is an Italian human rights NGO focusing on the penal and penitentiary systems. They monitored the situation…
Source — Antigone
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(ANSA) - Rome, March 9 - Seven people died as violent protests broke out Monday in 22 Italian prisons against coronavirus restrictions with many inmates asking for an amnesty due to the virus emergency.
Source — Ansa
Read more Italy: l'Etat critiqué pour ses conditions de détention dans un rapport du Conseil de l'Europe
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This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Yabiladi
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Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions
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Italy
Five Star Movement - Lega’s governing contract poses some problems: here is what Giuseppe Mosconi Professor of Sociology of Law and President of Antigone Veneto thinks
At first reading, Chapter 12 of the Five Star Movement and Lega’s government plan (or “government contract,” as they call it) seems…
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Italy: challenges ahead
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– Published 25 May 2018.
Antigone has been advocating for a long time to urge the Government to reform the penitentiary system.
A law was supposed to bring significant changes, such as:
Equalization of psychiatric diseases to physical diseases with the aim of providing an adequate medical and juridical…
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Marcello dell'Anna (V)
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Marcello dell'Anna (IV)
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Long-term prisoners
Italy
“I am trapped in my memories, stuck on images from the end of the 80s…”
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Marcello dell'Anna (III)
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Long-term prisoners
Italy
“All my best. I go back to prison the day after tomorrow. Warm greetings, Marcello”
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Marcello dell'Anna (I)
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Long-term prisoners
Italy
“I have been detained constantly for the last 24 years. I am doing out a life sentence…”
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