Wider Steps Needed to Protect Prisoners’ Health in Italy

Expand Inmates stage a protest against new rules to cope with coronavirus emergency, including the suspension of relatives' visits, on the roof of the San Vittore prison in Milan, Italy. © AP Photo/Antonio Calanni With news that four prisoners in Italy tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, bolder steps to protect the health of detainees and guards and alleviate overcrowding in its penitentiary system are all the more urgent. On March 16, the government adopted a decree that, among other measures, will allow for early supervised release of prisoners with less…

Read complete article

~	Jobseekers get about $345 less than pensioners each fortnight. This gap is hurting, and is set to widen without change

~	What is childhood dementia? And how could new research help?

~	Species living closely together in symbiosis is far older and way more common than you might think

~	We’re all feeling the collective grief and trauma of violence against women – but this is the progress we have made so far

~	Getting to know Alexandra Philbin: A Q&A with an Irish language activist

~	Trump trial reveals details about how the former president thinks about, and exploits, the media

~	Why the potential for another Donald Trump presidency is making Iran very nervous

~	Labor facing heavy defeat in Queensland, but faring better in federal polls

~	We reconstructed landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago

~	What do we lose when our old suburbs disappear?