Orin Swift makes a wine here in California called "The Prisoner", but in Italy, actual prisoners make wine (login required, sorry... use Bugmenot if you want). Murderers and robbers in the Velletri prison a little south of Rome make wine as part of a rehabilitation program (they also grow produce and make olive oil), and turn out 45,000 bottles a year of wines called "Fuggiasco" (Fugitive) and "The Seven Turns of the Key" (referring to the permanence of imprisonment). This is all part of the attempt to rehab Italy's much-criticized penal system, and even though the efficacy is debated, is an interesting idea. I guess it is the Italian version of having prisoners answer your state tourist information calls like New Mexico does.
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