As previously highlighted, the Ludovica Jona Lasinio, a grantee of the European Local Cross-border grant programme, spoke at the Human Rights Italian Parliamentary Commission in 2025 to discuss her findings as a follow-up of the team's investigative project The Business of Madness.
Most recently, a senator from the Italian opposition Democratic Party, took up the issue and successfully secured an amendment to the finance bill passed at the end of 2025. This amendment allocated €200,000 for national and regional authorities to monitor the use of mechanical restraints, while also making this provision mandatory.
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