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Prisoners back in <http://archive.gulfnews.com/world/Italy/10058185.html> jail within hours http://archive.gulfnews.com/world/Italy/10058185.html 08/06/2006 10:34 PM | The Telegraph Group Limited, Italy: An amnesty that freed more than 5,000 inmates from Italian jails backfired when dozens of the former prisoners reoffended and were back behind bars within hours. The early release scheme, which cuts sentences by three years, was introduced to reduce overcrowding of the prison system which has more than 62,000 inmates 20,000 more than it can handle. Although convictions for Mafia-related crimes, terrorism, rape, paedophilia and people-smuggling are exempt, more than 12,000 prisoners will be released in the next few weeks. But within hours of jail doors being opened dozens of people re-offended. The most serious case was in Udine where plumber Piero Melis, 53, was released from an eight-month sentence for attacking his wife Carla only to be rearrested less than six hours later after allegedly trying to strangle her. There have been dozens of similar incidents. In Sardinia, Massimiliano Formula, 32, and Raimondo Muntoni, 28, were arrested after getting drunk and smashing up a bar in Nouro. Officers called to calm them were attacked before both were back in custody accused of assault, damage and resisting arrest. In Genoa, Milan, Palermo, Rome and Trieste, former prisoners were involved in crimes ranging from assault, breaking and entering, attempted car theft and armed robbery. There were also fears that many foreign inmates released could have terror links. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
