The situation in surveillance courts
in Italy is "dramatic", said on Thursday Giovanni Maria Pavarin,
a former surveillance judge who headed the National coordination
of surveillance magistrates.
A total of "236 magistrates are employed in the 29 courts that
have to decide a very high number of cases, we need an
additional 1,000" magistrates, he explained.
"They work incessantly but, as of today, some 100,000 cases need
to be examined and these only concern convicted felons who are
free and need to serve terms of four years or less", said
Pavarin.
"These people are waiting to know their fate - prison or
community-based alternatives", he concluded.
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