#Prisons

Mattarella: “Any attack on the press amounts to a subversive act against the Republic”

In his address to the parliamentary journalists on the occasion of the traditional ‘Fan Ceremony’, the President of the Italian…

Prisons. Gonnella (Antigone): “A tragic situation marked by overcrowding and suicides”

The 20th Antigone report on prison conditions was presented in Rome on 22 April. The prison population is growing along…

Yulia Navalnaya: “Putin must answer for everything he has done to my husband and to Russia”

Addressing the European Parliament, the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was killed while imprisoned in Siberia, remembered her…

Summer in prison. “We need to plan ahead so that this season does not become an endless crisis”

Prisoners are spending their days in the heat, without any activities and without the presence of volunteers. The general inspector…

Persons deprived of liberty. Palma (Guarantor): “Alternative and community-based measures did not decrease prison population”

The Guarantor voiced concern over the high number of suicides in 2023, numbering a total of 29, along with 12…

EU Parliament: Russia must immediately release political prisoners Kara-Murza and Navalny

Council of Europe: Russia is the country with the largest number of detainees (478,000). Overcrowded prisons in several countries

Prisons: Council of Europe, detainees down in the Old Continent. Record numbers in Russia and Turkey, 60,000 in Italy. “Cybercriminals difficult to trace”

Germany: Caritas renews website that helps children of prison inmates in Germany

Holy Mass resumes in prisons. Don Grimaldi: “Chaplains were a bridge to the outside world during lockdown”

A circular letter dated June 1st, issued by Italy’s Prison Administration Department (DAP) has authorized Eucharistic celebrations in prisons with…

COVID-19 Coronavirus: UK, Catholic Bishops back plan to release prisoners to ease pressure on jails