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

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.

The witness, a detainee called Luigi Laina', said he met Cucchi during the night between October 16 and 17, 2009, in the medical ward of Rome's Regina Coeli prison, and that Cucchi told him that ...

The two are accused of omission offenses. Campiti is detained in Regina Coeli prison. The charges against him: aggravated murder by premeditation and trivial motives, attempted murder, personal ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For these reasons, the precautionary measure of prison was ordered for the forty-eight-year-old and he was taken to the Regina Coeli prison.