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Inmates, guards suffer smoke inhalation in Gorizia prison riot

Inmates, guards suffer smoke inhalation in Gorizia prison riot

Italy's jails are 'exploding' says rights association Antigone

ROME, 23 July 2024, 12:39

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Around 10 inmates and guards were taken to hospital early on Tuesday to be treated for smoke inhalation after prisoners set fire to mattresses in their cells during a riot at a jail on the north-eastern city of Gorizia overnight.
    None of the people taken to hospital are in a life-threatening condition, the sources said.
    The riot is only the latest in a series of recent disturbances at Italy's prisons, amid alarm about overcrowding, a problem that especially acute during the heatwaves the country has been having, and the high number of inmate suicides.
    Prison-rights association Antigone said in a report presented in Rome on Tuesday that Italy's prisons "are exploding".
    The report said the official overcrowding rate at Italy's prisons of around 120% is too low because it fails to account for the over 4,000 places that are not currently available.
    It said the real overcrowding rate is over 130%, with the nation's jails holding 14,000 more inmates than the number they have places for.
    The report said the overcrowding rate was over 150% in 56 jails and over 190% in eight, while only 38 did not suffer overcrowding.
    Antigone said the prisons had 61,480 inmates on June 30, compared to an official capacity of 51,234.
    It said there have been 58 suicides in Italian prisons since the start of the year, including nine so far in July.
    "If this pace continues, there is a risk that by the end of the year we will surpass the tragic record of 2022 which, with 85 cases, went down in history as the year with the most suicides ever," it said.
   

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