Inmate dies in Viterbo prison, another attempts suicide

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 10 - An inmate dies in a Viterbo prison Sunday while another prisoner tried to kill himself, authorities there said amid a wave of prison suicides linked to overcrowding and bad conditions in Italy's jails.
    One inmate died of an illness, another was rescued from a suicide attempt, and a riot broke out after the prison police intervened, in night of chaos in the Mammagialla prison in Viterbo, explained the regional secretary of the penitentiary police union, USPP lazio, Daniele Nicastrini.
    "(It was) an escalation of events that put a strain on the staff on duty and made the intervention of a support team necessary," he said, stressing that Italian prisons are coming under intolerable stress. (ANSA).