The announcement was made by the Department of juvenile justice and community which also announced that an inspection had been completed at the facility and new urgent “infrastructural interventions” planned.

This comes after two brothers and a third inmate were reported to have escaped from the prison over the weekend.

The jail break was reported amid widespread alarm about conditions and overcrowding in Italian prisons, following a spate of suicides among inmates and a series of episodes of unrest.

A riot also took place at Beccaria last weekend.

The department said security officials have been mobilised to find the young fugitives.

Alfonso Greco, the leader of prison officers’ union Sappe in Lombardy, said on Sunday that the brothers were the ringleaders of recent disturbances.

He added that it was the third time one of them had tried to escape.

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