An 85-year-old woman was released
from Milan's tough San Vittore Prison Thursday after spending
the last two weeks there after being given an eight month
sentence for squatting.
The woman, who was not self-sufficient and limping, was freed
after an outcry led by prisoners' rights group Antigone.
Antigone said the woman should never have gone to jail because
her crime did not pose a danger to society and her term was so
short.
Milan prisoners guarantor Franco Maisto told reporters: "You
should have seen her. It's always good to keep your eyes open
and to look at people. We have proof that when poor people are
not helped in their sentences these are the consequences".
Antigone denounced the case saying the woman needed constant
help from her fellow inmates and jail medical staff.
She had been found guilty of illegally occupying a flat on the
outskirts of the Lombard capital.
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