More jail places needed amid suicide spate says Meloni - Politics. More jail places are needed to ease chronic overcrowding in Italian prisons that has contributed to a spate of suicides.
Premier Giorgia Meloni said Monday. She said the overcrowding couldn't be solved by decriminalization as advocated by opposition centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein. Prison unions have complained of chronic understaffing as well as overcrowding and poor conditions contributing to inmate malaise.