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.
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