Italy has 30,000 foreign convicts serving sentences outside prison (opens in new tab)

More than 144,000 convicted offenders in Italy are currently serving sentences outside prison through alternative or community-based measures, according to new official data highlighted by Italian newspaper La Verità, with over 30,000 of them being foreign nationals. Figures from Italy’s justice administration dated Jan. 15, 2026, show 144,822 convicted individuals are not incarcerated but are […]