ROME (Reuters) - Italy's rightist government on Thursday backed a raft of measures to improve public security including potentially tougher penalties for women offenders who are pregnant or have very young children, in a move aimed at pickpockets.
The coalition League party had long called for the scrapping of a rule that prevents such women from being sent straight to jail, as part of its campaign against foreign pickpockets on public transport.
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