Title:  inmates in rome
Date: 01-08-2019
Tags: Rome, inmates, garden
Location:BOSCH
Mood: day
Image: 00108 inmates cleaning rome.svg

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A 2018 pilot project promoted by the “Five Star Movement” ( political party ) in Italy put “Prisoner-gardeners” to work in Rome with the idea of developing and maintaining municipal gardens. Today the city employs 100 gardeners, much less than in the year 2000 when 1500 gardeners looked after the city. 

The money saved by using this labor force and the educative and psychological benefits to inmates are the main arguments given to justify the project

Similar projects are planned in Milan, Palermo and Naples.

Most of these information have been taken from: Rome's green-fingered inmates clean up the city's parks and gardens. An article of Arman Soldin for the thelocal.it



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