Minors in detention up by over 50% since Caivano decree - Antigone

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 25 - The number of young people being held in IPM detention centres for minors has increased by over 50% since the government's 2023 'Caivano decree' cracking down on juvenile crime, the Antigone prisoner-rights association said in a report on Wednesday. The government brought in the legislation amid widespread shock and indignation about the case of two cousins aged 10 and 12 who were gang raped by a group made up mostly of minors in the crime-hit town of Caivano, near Nap...

By ANSA