Govt launches jail suicide plan

(ANSA) - Rome, May 4 - Justice Minister Andrea Orlando on Wednesday said launched a plan to stem prison suicides, which he called a "worrying and intolerable phenomenon".
    Orlando said he had already issued a directive aimed at "raising the level of attention, boosting at the same time the measures that in each prison are already taken to prevent self-harming".
    The minister launched a suicide-prevention plan to gather, process and publish data on the phenomenon and the measures taken to stem it.