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[Italy] Jailbirds on the loose? Mass pardon rattles Italy

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  • 09-08-2006 4:36am
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    Victor
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    Article on a pardon put in place by the new Italian government. I couldn't help but laugh at the piece in bold.

    The full article is reasonably thorough.

    http://home.eircom.net/content/reuters/uNews/8641795?view=Standard
    Jailbirds on the loose? Mass pardon rattles Italy
    From:Reuters
    Wednesday, 09 August, 2006
    By Silvia Aloisi

    ROME (Reuters) - Amanda Ait-Jilal, a 27-year-old transsexual convicted for drug dealing, was in her cell wondering how she'd get through another year in jail when the prison guard came round.

    "Pack your stuff. You are out of here," the French immigrant recalls the guard telling her. "Take my advice. Be good."

    It was 10 o'clock at night.

    Three hours later, she was wandering the streets of Naples, savouring her new-found freedom after nearly three years in one of Italy's most infamous prisons, Poggio Reale.

    Ait-Jilal is one of more than 12,000 detainees in Italy who have just been released or are about to walk free thanks to a mass pardon pushed through by Romano Prodi's centre-left government to reduce prison overcrowding.
    .....

    The pardon, which needed a two-thirds majority in parliament, was extended to those guilty of corruption and embezzlement to win support from former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's opposition.

    The extension irked some Prodi allies because Berlusconi's rule was tainted by bribery scandals. Italian newspapers say the pardon could help those still standing trial for the collapse of dairy group Parmalat, one of Europe's biggest corporate frauds.

    .....


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