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A woman wearing a mask walks out of the Rebibbia prison as smoke billows following inmates' protests, in Rome, Monday, March 9, 2020. Italian penitentiary police say six inmates protesting coronavirus containment measures at the northern Italian prison of Modena have died after they broke into the infirmary and overdosed on methadone. The protest Sunday in Modena was among the first of more than two-dozen riots at Italy's overcrowded lock-ups that grew Monday. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

A woman wearing a mask walks out of the Rebibbia prison as smoke billows following inmates' protests, in Rome, Monday, March 9, 2020. Italian penitentiary police say six inmates protesting coronavirus containment measures at the northern Italian prison of Modena have died after they broke into the infirmary and overdosed on methadone. The protest Sunday in Modena was among the first of more than two-dozen riots at Italy's overcrowded lock-ups that grew Monday. (Cecilia Fabia…

March 9, 2020

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Prison riots hit Italy amid virus; 6 die in overdose
March 9, 2020 9:17 a.m.

Prison riots hit Italy amid virus; 6 die in overdose

ROME (AP) — Tensions in Italy's overcrowded prisons erupted Monday over new coronavirus containment measures, with riots in at least two dozen lock-ups and the deaths of six inmates who broke into an infirmary and overdosed on methadone.