Foreigners detained in Italy should be sent to their home countries to serve their sentences. Establish bilateral agreements with African countries to alleviate the dramatic congestion in Italian prisons. This is the ambitious strategy that the government is working on. Today, jail overcrowding is believed to be around 128 percent of capacity. This is enough to feed a cycle of violence and tensions within jails, including conflicts with officials and an alarming increase in inmate suicides. An alternative route must be discovered promptly. This is what the government's plan aims to achieve: working on a series of bilateral agreements with African partners to cooperate on the justice front and, if the requirements are met, returning individuals serving sentences in Italy to their home countries. Indeed, Africa accounts for the majority of the foreign prison population. Certain countries will be given precedence. According to government figures from June, there are 3,600 Moroccan citizens in Italian jails, accounting for more than 20% of all foreigners. Tunisia followed with 1,818 inmates, accounting for 10%. Nigeria and Egypt will follow. We are looking at a model: the agreements that were reached with Albania and Romania to bring convicts home.
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