Italy
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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…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…