Italy's most powerful and enduring organised crime groups known as mafias are built on blood ties. But a controversial program is removing children from mafia-affiliated families in the hope of breaking the cycle and giving them a chance to choose a different life.
Additional sentencing was added, a parent or parents went to jail and their kids were taken from them.
Trusting the government to do the right thing is a poor idea. Politicians will only do the “right” thing if it helps them out.
That usually starts trickling out much later, look at how long it took for the truth to come out about troubled youth camps.
How is that additional sentencing? In essence, they proved themselves to be unfit parents (because, you know, the whole grooming for crime thing), and had their kids removed due to that. It’s like if you lost your job because you were convicted of a crime. That’s not additional sentencing, that’s just a consequence of your actions
Without any information, this is just idle conspiracy theorising. It’s not even about politicians, since from the sound of it this came from regular govt officials, not elected politicians.
The difference there is the state is doing both things for the same crime, and employment is a conditional agreement.
Blindly trusting that the government would do the right thing requires a severe lack of understanding of history.
Elected officials are the ones who hold regular govt officials accountable.