Overview
- Gianni Alemanno, whose case reached the Rome surveillance court Friday, won a 39-day sentence cut that sets his expected release for June 24.
- Judges applied article 35-ter of the penitentiary code, which trims time when custody violates Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
- The order cites cells with less than three square meters per person and a six-man cell assignment in a prison holding about 1,700 people against 1,000 places.
- Alemanno is serving a definitive 22-month term from the Mondo di Mezzo case for trafficking in illicit influence after losing social-service custody on December 31, 2024.
- Defense lawyer Edoardo Albertario said the decision confirms degrading conditions and could spur similar claims from others held in overcrowded Italian prisons.