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Locals hit back at Mafia prison plan over fears it will create ‘Italy’s own Devil’s Island’

The high stone walls of a prison in Nuoro, a remote city on the Italian island of Sardinia, once contained notorious mobsters and convicted terrorists, its fortress-like complex renowned for isolating them from the mainland.

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