Overview

• Chamber President Lorenzo Fontana toured Rebibbia on July 4, meeting director Maria Donata Iannantuono, penitentiary police and inmates including Gianni Alemanno
• During the visit, Fontana urged urgent action to tackle chronic overcrowding and staffing shortages to improve safety and living conditions
• Alemanno’s lawyer Edoardo Albertario described his client’s cell housing six men in a metal structure prone to prohibitive summer heat and linked it to past suicide attempts
• The former Rome mayor has invited politicians and civil society groups to witness prison conditions firsthand and signalled readiness to mount further protests
• Italy’s national prison population averages 133% capacity, underscoring systemic challenges that past parliamentary sessions have yet to resolve