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NAPOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Pietro Ioia (57), activist and president of the association Ex D.O.N. (ex detenuti organizzati napoletani - organized ex Napoletan prisoners) and former drug trafficker for the Camorra, poses for a portrait in Napoli, Italy, on October 8th 2016. Pietro Ioia was a drug trafficker for the Camorra, the Italian Mafia-type crime organization which arose in the region of Campania and its capital Naples. For his crimes, he spent 22 years in prison. After being released, Mr. Ioia founded the association Ex D.O.N. (ex detenuti organizzati napoletani - organized ex Napoletan prisoners) which focuses on prisoners' rehabilitation in society after being released. Pietro Ioia also denounces prison guards abuses withing the Naples prison of Poggioreale. He publicly denounced the existence of the "Cella Zero" (Cell Zero), an unnumbered cell inside the prison of Poggioreale, Naples, where prisoners were illegally beaten by prison guards.

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NAPOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Pietro Ioia (57), activist and president of the association Ex D.O.N. (ex detenuti organizzati napoletani - organized ex Napoletan prisoners) and former drug trafficker for the Camorra, poses for a portrait in Napoli, Italy, on October 8th 2016. Pietro Ioia was a drug trafficker for the Camorra, the Italian Mafia-type crime organization which arose in the region of Campania and its capital Naples. For his crimes, he spent 22 years in prison. After being released, Mr. Ioia founded the association Ex D.O.N. (ex detenuti organizzati napoletani - organized ex Napoletan prisoners) which focuses on prisoners' rehabilitation in society after being released. Pietro Ioia also denounces prison guards abuses withing the Naples prison of Poggioreale. He publicly denounced the existence of the "Cella Zero" (Cell Zero), an unnumbered cell inside the prison of Poggioreale, Naples, where prisoners were illegally beaten by prison guards.