Italy was the country's with
the highest proportion of prisoners in jail for drug offences in
2015, according to the Council of Europe's SPACE study, which
was released on Tuesday. It said almost a third of inmates,
31.1%, who had been handed definitive sentences were in jail for
drugs crimes. The data in the annual report photographed the
situation in 2015 in the Council of Europe's 47 member countries
up to September 1 of that year.
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