Italy
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Italia: 45 probed for 'torturing' Ivrea prison inmates
Guards, doctors,functionaries and ex-wardens are under investigationSource — Ansa
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…Source — ANSA
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…Source — Reuters
Italy: seven dead in Modena prison riot, 20 break out of Foggia
(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
Italy: l'Etat critiqué pour ses conditions de détention dans un rapport du Conseil de l'Europe
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Italy: Europe court says Italy's hard prison regime breaches human rights
ROME (Reuters) - A European court ruled on Tuesday that Italy’s tough prison regimes for mobsters and convicted terrorists who refused to cooperate with the justice system violated human rights and needed to be changed.
Italy: un projet pilote pour prévenir la radicalisation des femmes en prison
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Yabiladi
Italy: beyond the bars - how rugby is reforming Italian prisoners
Italian rugby’s governing body, Federazione Italiane Rugby (FIR) has introduced rugby in 15 prisons across the country.They might live behind bars, but rugby has given prisoners in Italy a new-found freedom.Source — CNN
Italy: Fatma Bucak's best photograph, a teenager in a Turin prison about to be freed
“He had been sold a vision of paradise and found himself in jail. His release was four days away – he didn’t know if he’d survive outside”Source — The guardian
Italy: bars on the windows, laughter between the lines
An Italian nonprofit organizes soccer matches inside the country’s prisons in an effort to foster healthy relationships between inmates and their children.Source — New York Times
Italie : une association LGBT franchit les murs de la prison
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — 360
Italy offers a glimpse of the international concern over violent extremism in prisons
During a phone conversation intercepted by Italian police, one prison inmate’s wife told her husband in no uncertain terms how incarceration was changing him for the worse.Source — Los Angeles Times
34 Tunisiens y sont détenus : voyage au cœur de la prison italienne de Rebibia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Leaders
Vatican : mille prisonniers attendus au premier « jubilé des détenus »
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L'Italie regarde ses prisons en face
Sorry, this article is not available in English yet. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Paris Match
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…Source — Liberties.eu, Associazione Antigone
Italy: govt launches jail suicide plan
Justice Minister Andrea Orlando on Wednesday said launched a plan to stem prison suicides, which he called a “worrying and intolerable phenomenon”.Source — ANSA
Italy : despite prison reforms, system is in crisis
Bollate, a prison near Milan, is unlike any other : it is a model jail that attracts visitors from all over Europe, keen to learn from its policies of rehabilitation and reinsertion into active life. It has workshops, and even stables. But it is the only one of its kind in Italy. The national situa…Source — Euronews
Italy decriminalizes obscene acts, other minor crimes to unburden justice system
Italy decriminalized a long list of minor crimes on Friday, from obscene acts to blunders by cannabis researchers, to ease pressure on an overburdened justice system that ranks among the least efficient in the world.Source — The Japan Times