Meloni govt won't pass 'empty-jails' law says Delmastro

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 14 - The Meloni government will not pass any 'empty-jails' measure to solve Italian prisons' chronic overcrowding because such moves "have never worked in the past, Justice Undersecretary Andrea Delmastro delle Vedove said after visiting two jails in Puglia Wednesday.
    He said, instead, that the government would continue in a prison building programme that has already seen 255 million earmarked for new hails over the last 20 months, "recovering 7,000 of the 10,000 missing prison places".
    The government has mooted more alternatives to jail time and shorter sentences as a way to resolve an overcrowding crisis that has helped spur a record wave of suicides among inmates and guards. (ANSA).