Three prison officers arrested for torturing psychiatric inmate

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 9 - Three prison officers were arrested in Bari Wednesday on suspicion of torturing a psychiatric inmate at the Puglia city's prison in April this year, local sources said.
    The violence was allegedly inflicted on the 41-year-old male inmate on April 27.
    The officers reportedly beat him after he set fire to his mattress.
    They are accused of 'torturing' him while he was being taken to the prison infirmary.
    Investigators scanned CCTV footage in order to find evidence leading to the arrests, police said. (ANSA).