Italy to make prisoners produce face masks

Updated April 5 2020 - 3:43am, first published 3:32am
Inmates in prisons in Milan, Rome and Salerno will start making face masks from mid-April.
Inmates in prisons in Milan, Rome and Salerno will start making face masks from mid-April.

Inmates in three Italian prisons will start producing face masks to be used as a protection against the coronavirus epidemic, the Italian Justice Ministry says.