Double Exile: Inside a Verona Prison | Al Jazeera World
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2019
- More than 60,000 people are currently detained in Italy's prisons. Of those, around one in 20 are women, one in 100 are juveniles, and some one in three are foreign prisoners.
The jail featured in the documentary on the outskirts of the city of Verona houses several hundred prisoners including many from North Africa - serving sentences for a range of crimes, from drug trafficking to robbery to murder.
Filmed entirely inside the jail over three years, Double Exile is the story of three men and a woman from North Africa whose dreams of a new life abroad ended behind bars. With rare access to both inmates and the prison regime, the film focuses on prisoners from Morocco and Tunisia who arrived in Italy hoping for a new life, only to descend into criminal behaviour and incarceration.
One Tunisian tells how he began using drugs at the age of 18 in nightclubs. Soon he was selling narcotics to a few friends and before long he was a dealer, extravagantly displaying the trappings of sudden wealth, fast cars and cash aplenty.
"I made a lot of money and back in Tunisia, people looked up to me," he says. " I arrived in prison, knowing nothing about it."
Now more than two years into his sentence, he is still coming to terms to the daily grind of taking orders from prison guards.
"I never imagined I'd have to take orders ... Prison teaches perseverance and dedication," he says.
Another Moroccan recalls being smuggled into Spain before travelling to Italy. There he too became a drug dealer and lived the high life - wine, women and song every night - before his inevitable arrest.
"Europeans in prisons in Arab countries wouldn't be abandoned by their home countries. But our countries don't care about us. We pay doubly for our mistakes," he says. "The laws here aren't in our favour."
Inarguably the most shocking case featured in Double Exile is that of a Moroccan man who disapproved of his 18-year-old daughter dating an Italian man in his 30s. A fight broke out and the father stabbed his daughter, inflicting multiple wounds on the young woman. She died at the scene.
Double Exile gives a rare insight into life in an Italian prison, a closeted environment where young North African men and women are jailed whenever their new lives abroad spiral into serious crime.
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The dude that murdered his daughter belongs in prison, full stop.
Why do prisoners always have a “woe is me attitude”, they are there through their own doing, they should be grateful they aren’t in a prison in the country they left as I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything like where they are now.
That prison seems nice.. Can I have a free room?
ربي يطلاق صرحكم. خوتي 🇩🇿🇲🇦🇹🇳💪😞
A very good documentary.
Remember, prison is an option, and they choose to behave in a way that risks going to jail.
Prison is cool. Spending every 5 minutes in advertisement on RUclips is not. Imagine as a prisoner watching advertisements 16 times a day
The man who kill his own daughter should hve pickup Afghan instead Italy.
Doesnt like like prison
Dovette baciare a terra e alla che avete le celle in Italia che sembra un albergo Ditemi come la cella in Tunisia
It is because European countries are hellbent on rehabilitation than punishment
المجرم مكانه الطبيعي هو السجن و الابعاد عن المجتمع .
قول الله يستر تقدر انت تكون فبلاصته
It must be all those west African boat migrants seeking a better life.
Hard labor for petty crimes not full time job ffs
Sigh* why is this 45 minutes long I don't have enough time to watch dis
Dont do the crime if you cant do the time.
propaganda documentary.. majority muslim??'
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Tv e fornello in camera, sigarette, giocano a calcio nel cortile e si lamentano... noi ONESTI ci spacchiamo la schiena 10 ore al giorno e a fatica arriviamo a fine mese. CAZZO PARLATE A FARE a mantenervi sono soldi buttati.
Pensi veramente di pagargliele tu le sigarette? O che il fornello gli serva per scaldare il cibo della prigione?
I parenti che possono versano soldi sul conto della prigione a nome del detenuto, che poi li usa per comprare praticamente tutto allo spaccio interno.
Fatti una settimana in 4 mq, magari da innocente in attesa di giudizio, e poi torna qui a pontificare.
Non c'è carcerato che non vorrebbe lavorare, anche per non pesare sulle famiglie.
Solo che ci sono 30 posti per 100 richieste. Infatti le guardie lo usano come arma di ricatto.
Prova ad ammalarti in carcere o avere solo un mal di denti, altro che TV.
First comment.
propaganda aljazeer documentary.... majority italian prison arab muslim??