Convict Harvest: The Italian convicts who are being socialised through wine production.
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On the remote Italian prison island of Gorgona, an experimental project is turning hardened criminals into the most improbable winemakers. Could high-class prison hooch really encourage reform?
“Since I arrived here, it’s like being reborn”, says an inmate serving out a 13 year sentence. “We’re in the open, out in the fields.” On Gorgona, inmates avoid Italy’s overcrowded prisons and instead make a wine that’s sold in three Michelin starred restaurants at $130 a bottle. The key to the project’s success? Inmates “learn to take pride in their work”, explains expert winemaker Marquis Lamberto Frescobaldi.