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Italy to Add 15,000 Prison Places to Ease Overcrowding
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The prisons in the southern neighbouring country are chronically overcrowded, and this is to change – with questionable prospects.
The Italian government is addressing the problem of overcrowded prisons. On Tuesday evening, an extensive plan for the rehabilitation and expansion of prisons was adopted.The programme will include funds from the EU reconstruction plan, and 335 million euros come from the funds of the Ministry of Infrastructure.The aim is to create 15,000 new places for prisoners in the longer term.By 2027, Italian prisons and juvenile detention centres will hav…
Italy is not a country where you can build in a year or two of the prisons with all the geological, urban and architectural constraints that we have and therefore you have to resort to prefabricated buildings.
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CDE NewsItaly to add 15,000 prison places to ease overcrowding
ROME (Reuters) -Italy's government has pledged to expand prison capacity by up 15,000 places and facilitate the transfer of inmates with addiction problems to treatment centres to tackle a long-standing overcrowding crisis. Read full story
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