US EditionMeloni’s Law-and-Order Crackdown Pushes Italy’s Prisons to the Brink
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Fortunately there is Sergio Mattarella, who in the various areas in which he intervenes reminds us that there are limits to the power of the government to do what he wants: the limits dictated by the Constitution. One cannot make a rag paper of constitutional principles, although one has been elected, one is a majority, one feels unbeatable in front of the citizens. However, one must respect the constitutional pact, even in prison. The President…
Mattarella's complaint against the overcrowding of prisons has been the subject of headlines and headlines on most of the newspapers and in the main tgs. Meeting the representatives of the prison agents, the president explained that the situation of Italian prisons is unsustainable and it is a ...
Meloni’s law-and-order crackdown pushes Italy’s prisons to the brink
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks set to send more people to jail with her law-and-order crackdown — but the country’s prisons are in no fit state to take more inmates. On June 9, prison guards in Cagliari in Sardinia discovered a 56-year-old inmate had hanged himself in his cell, the 33rd suicide in an Italian prison this year. President Sergio Mattarella this week urged the government to respond to the “dramatic” number of suicides b…
Minister Nordio, let's start with the case of the day: the emergency prisons. What responds to the cry of alarm of the head of state on the phenomenon of the suicides of prisoners and the conditions of life in...
'It must be done out of respect for the Constitution values. Overcrowding is now unsustainable' (ANSA)
The President of the Republic met the head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration and a representation of the Prison Police at the Quirinale.
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