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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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Inmate Santo Scianguetta (33) poses for a portrait by the one-hectare vineyard he cultivates under the supervision of the Frescobaldi agronomists and winemakers, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_45...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Prison officers are here by the one-hectare vineyard in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_47...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Prison officers are here in the one-hectare vineyard of the "Frescobaldi per Gorgona" project, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_44...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: The one-hectare vineyard as seen from the farm of the island of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_49...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: (L-R) Inmate Umberto Prinzi (43) chats with Giuseppe Picano, captain of the Penitentiary Police guard ship,  in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_48...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: The clock tower on in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_44...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Inmates of the Gorgona penitentiary are here after having lunch, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_51...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: A prison officer walks from the farm to the one-hectare vineyard in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_49...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: (L-R) Penitentiary Director Carlo Alberto Mazzerbo and President of Marchesi de' Frescobaldi Lamberto Frescobaldi chat in the one-hectare vineyard cultivated by inmates, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_45...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: A prison officer controls the entrance of one of the buildings of the penitentiary in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_44...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Penitentiary Director Carlo Alberto Mazzerbo (center) gives a speech to  Lamberto Frescoboaldi (1st from left) and inmates of the Gorgona penitentiary the day of his 57th birthday, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_50...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Tools used for the wine tanks hang here on a wall of the cellar of the penitentiary in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_49...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Inmate Santo Scianguetta (33) drives a tractor after checking the vineyard in the island of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_48...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Lamberto Frescobaldi, the 41-years-old President of Marchesi de' Frescobaldi, is here in the one-hectare vineyard of the "Frescobaldi per Gorgona" project, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_44...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: View of Gorgona, the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869. The are currently 70 detainees in Gorgona <br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_42...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Lamberto Frescobaldi, the 41-years-old President of Marchesi de' Frescobaldi, is here in the one-hectare vineyard of the "Frescobaldi per Gorgona" project, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_44...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: the fishing village of Gorgona by the harbor, where only one civilian lives, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_43...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Prison officers check the entrance to the farm of the island of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_49...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, pulls the fishing net on her boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Reservoirs of the Gorgona white wine are here in a cellar of the penitentiary in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_48...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: (L-R) Inmates Santo Scianguetta (33) and Umberto Prinzi (43) check the one-hectare vineyard they cultivate under the supervision of the Frescobaldi agronomists and winemakers in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_45...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Inmate Yang Guodong from Wongzhou (China) is here in the penitentiary vegetable garden he cultivates, in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_48...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, pulls the fishing net on her boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, pulls the fishing net on her boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: A man fishes while e penitentiary guard ship leaves the island of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_52...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Inmate Umberto Prizzi (43), who works in the one-hectare vineyard under the supervision of the Frescbobaldi agronomists and winemakers, poses for a portrait  in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_51...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: The entrance gate to the farm of the island of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_49...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: A man throws a line as a boat approaches to the dock in the harbor of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_43...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Inmate Ciro Amato (37) cuts cheese during a lunch in Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014. Ciro Amato will be serving a conviction until 2023, for a crime he committed when he was 19 years old. He's been at the Gorgona penitentiary island since September 2013. <br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_51...jpg
  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: A view of the village of  Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
<br />
Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
<br />
The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
<br />
Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
    CIPG_20140627_NYT_Frescobaldi__M3_48...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • 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 front of the prison of Poggioreale 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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  • GORGONA, ITALY - 27 JUNE 2014: Families of the prison staff are at the harbor of the island of Gorgona, Italy, on June 27th 2014.<br />
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Gorgona is the smallest island of the Tuscan archipelago, located 18 miles west of Livorno, which became an experimental agricultural penal colony in 1869.<br />
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The “Frescobaldi per Gorgona” project  provides inmates the opportunity to learn winemaking techniques and job skills under the supervision of the company’s agronomists and winemakers, led by Vice President Lamberto Frescobaldi himself. Fifty inmates contributed to the production of Gorgona, a white wine made from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes planted on the island of Gorgona in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Tuscan coast. The Frescobaldi family purchased a hectare of old vineyards and will expand with more vineyards in the upcoming months. Total production is only 2,700 bottles, but 1,000 of the bottles will reach the US market through Frescobaldi importer Folio Fine Wine Partners, in the Fall.<br />
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Born in August 2012, the Gorgona initiative was financed by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and accomplished through the collaboration of the Gorgona Penitentiary's Directorate and Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi.
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