(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 23 - Around 10 inmates and guards were taken to hospital early on Tuesday to be treated for smoke inhalation after prisoners set fire to the mattresses in their cells during a riot at the jail on the north-eastern city of Gorizia overnight.
    None of the people taken to hospital are in a life-threatening condition, the sources said.
    The riot is only the latest in a series of recent disturbances at Italy's prisons, amid alarm about overcrowding, a problem that especially acute during the heatwaves the country has been having, and the high number of inmate suicides.
    Prison-rights association Antigone said in a report presented in Rome on Tuesday that Italy's prisons "are exploding". (ANSA).