Two more prisoners killed themselves in Italian jails on Saturday night, sources said Sunday, bringing the total of inmate suicides to 14 this year.
The suicides took place in prisons at Verona and near Caserta.
In Verona a 45-year-old Ukrainian man hung himself after already cutting his own throat last month and being given psychiatric treatment.
At Carinoal near Caserta, a 58-year-old disabled prisoner also takes his own life.
Centrist politician Davide Faraone appealed to the government to "stop the massacre" and said prisoners like the Ukrainian manbelonged in psychiatric facilities and not prisons.
Prison union SAPPE urged Justice Minister Carlo Nordio to take action on chronic understaffing, overcrowding and poor jail conditions which it said had contributed to the recent wave of suicides.
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