Italian prisons should create “love rooms” so inmates can have sex with their wives or partners, say rights activists.

Italian prisons should create “love rooms” so inmates can have sex with their wives or partners, say rights activists. The prisoners’ rights group Hands Off Cain has called for “stanze dell’amore”, or ...

Earlier this year at the 60th Venice Biennale, the Holy See launched its pavilion in the Giudecca Women’s Prison featuring ...

Severe overcrowding, dire conditions and appalling violence have brought the Italian carceral system to boiling point ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Prisoners walk down a corridor of Regina Coeli prison in Rome on May 30, 2014. [AFP] Traces of black soot still mark ...

The first project, which the cardinal would not provide many details about, will be installed at Rome's Regina Coeli prison, located less than a mile from the Vatican. The Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming ...

The investigating judge ruled he should remain in custody at Regina Coeli prison in Rome. According to the custodial warrant, 181 photos of classified documents were found on the USB stick ...

Outside the grim walls of Rome’s Regina Coeli prison last week, a happy mob of wives and sweethearts strummed mandolins and serenaded the prisoners cheering through the windows above.

He was held at the Italian capital's Regina Coeli prison since September 19 while the courts considered the request by police in Victoria to extradite him. The 65-year-old was put on a Qatar ...

Regina Coeli prison in Rome offers a "teeming microcosm" of the wider issues plaguing Italy's carceral system, said Agence France-Presse (AFP). A former convent dating back to the 17th century ...