JAIL IN ITALY: Felons on Europe's last prison island Gorgona | WELT Documentary
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2023
- In the middle of Europe lies the prison island of Gorgona. Off Italy's coast, around a hundred serious criminals serve their sentences here. The convicted criminals spend their days behind thick prison walls at night and demanding work on the plantation during the day. The guards are unarmed but operate an efficient surveillance system of dynamic control. Those inmates who fail to parry are transferred back to one of the overcrowded detention centers on the mainland.
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Seems like paradise compared to the average prison.
Seems like paradise compared to average life , if they let me fish I wouldn't want to leave
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Seems like paradise compared to almost anywhere.
no wonder no one tries to escape
Well done Italy, on a fantastic way of running an organised prison method which seems to tick every single box. I love the way every one is going about doing their jobs, with no sign of any one having a need to be rebellious or hard handed. The Island looks amazing too, love what they produce, and the hard work will make them healthy, wiser, and not get bored.
Many thanks for the video of Gorgona, a place I never knew existed. 😎
Who would want to escape from this beautiful place? Healthy food, hard work outdoors, gorgeous views, lush vegetation…. Almost paradise!
It is stunning and I never thought I'd say that about a prison lol I guess technically Alcatraz had a nice view too
@@leahflower9924 I suppose😆😆
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I also watched prison in Germany documentary, Aachen prison, conditions there are much better than in US, they literally have key for their cell so they can lock it when they leave, but guards have key of second lock. They have TV's in their cells, someone even Playstation, fridge, photos on wall, they can also work, they got common room, they pay prisoners to take german classes to teach them language, free healh care and medicine etc. There are people outside prison who barely survive on minimal wage jobs, do hard work, and they need to cook their meals, sometimes even eat less because money shortages, while prisoners get free already prepared food and they do easy jobs and get about 100 EUR for 1 month work which they can use to purchase additonal things like chocolate, tobacco, shampoo etc.
It may not be a good lifestyle for some young person who likes to travel, but for older ones is not so bad😂
That’s the youngest looking 95year old I’ve ever seen
These inmates have it better than most free men.
The threat of being returned to the mainland prisons would be enough of an incentive to keep anyone in line.
Prison isn’t a walk in the park, but this seems very humane mentally as well as psychically . Even not having to wear prison uniforms is a plus. Certainly the food looks far superior than most prisons and it seems the men take pride in their work. At least they are paid something for their work and thus can buy extras. It looks way better and more respect shown than “60 Days In”.
This is the only prison that 99% prisoners wanted to be held
Many prisons pay people for work the salary though is no where near liveable
@@lordtette no, they don’t pay enough to buy a few things in the commissary that are crazy overpriced. The burden goes on the family who are already stretched trying to travel to visit.
Give respect, earn respect. I hope these men can go back into society and be well and live within in it. G'day from Australia.
Lies again? Department Of Justice Drive Jeep
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Who would want to go back to society after this place?
It's far better conditions than most people have in freedom.
@@Wolffursadly, you speak the truth mate.
Prison seems more like a resort with a bit of responsibilities
It pays to kill in italy
This really is a success story I wish all of them the very best of luck
I've done time in Michigan and Colorado and believe me when I say that this place is a vacation Pete knows
They made the jail seem dangerous and intense.. The prisoners are just chilling lol. Seems like a great place to serve time IMO
No prison around the world os great to serve time brother!
@@HondDebeer-co1blhahaa you think USA is good....check out Finland & loads of other European jails...you gotta be very young?!
This place is like a vacation for any america prison
@Genxcivic America prison is nice compared to most under develop countries prisons
@@ArtSmosh1274Yeah, but it's bottom tier in first world countries. America is 100% about punishment and not about reform. It's a revenge based system.
Italian prison food is healthier than american organic food , Lol
Not hard
Please Welt do more documentaries like this. Great work.
The Italians even have a way to make a prison relatively, "La Dolce Vita."
New subscriber. You have such an interesting variety of videos to choose from. Thank you for educating me💝
Thank you Gargonna.Owesome documentary 🙏 all the best for the prisoners. Switzerland 🇨🇭
What a great documentary, I really liked it, thank you!
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This is a medium security prison by American or Brazilian standards. I am sure Italy has a pair of maximum security prisons or special handling unit prisons for particularly nasty gang affiliated thugs. All more power to the Italian justice system if they can reform criminals into good citizens again without resorting to extreme encarceration living conditions.
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In Norway, we have a prison island called Bastøy, meaning you claim that Gorgona is Europe’s last prison island is incorrect.
Norway is Scandinavia
@@jamielee3681 No, Norway is only a part of Scandinavia. Are you really so ill educated that you are unaware that Scandinavia is in Northern Europe and that Denmark shares a border with Germany?
He is ill educated like the producers of the documentary lol...but it was informative and interesting
@@jamielee3681 Scandinavia is a continent? I was taught that there are seven continents, now there are eight! Neat.
This is NOT the last prison island in Europe, there is a prison island in Norway, called Bastøy kretsfengsel….
Drinking game: Take a shot everytime the narrator says “Nelson Cancro”
Gorgona my friend is a holiday resort! 14 hours a day free movement with or without work and 10 hours behind bars in cells that most people in many countries in the world envy!! Very good food, lots of work experience to be gained and courses to follow which at the end of the day is paid as well!! If a convict has the fortune to be placed there, he can (if behaved) live a decent till good life while he is there and have skills and a future when he is released!! NOT a prison in any way - shape or form!! Titel should be: "Last holiday resort for hardened criminals!"
why don't you book your holiday at that holiday resort then? I think it's a brilliant initiative... it can really reconvert prisoners into good human beings....
Perhaps time to learn a skill, day hedge fund manager as a possible aim. O the sea is a swimming challenge
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It's as much a rehabilitation centre as a prison. What is the point in sending people to prison for 10 years, to release them and they commit a crime and return. If you can rehabilitate people, they can contribute to society! They can pay taxes, have a job, bring a family up, TELL OTHERS where they went wrong and also actually enjoy a drug/gamble/crime free life.
When I was in the army it was a lot harder than this but it was my choice and I was getting paid, some of these criminals (not all obviously) WILL turn their lives around and that is the jobs of prisons, reform. Norway has the most lenient prisons in the World and also the lowest reoffending rates. So what is the point in sending people to prison if they're just going to come back?
This is a great documentary,prisons should be a place of reforment and having prisons like these would give a better value to the society than those ones that operate based on hard conditions and severe violence,this prison sure does a great job and thanks also to the administration that runs this facility
Agreed, but also, there are ppl who are beyong redemption, like the ones who will just go back to their old wys no matter what you do. When some one argues this point, I can member thing of a 'solution'
@@LoveKills250 Exactly. many criminals see help as weakness. They are natural born predators. Their brains work differently to people like you (original poster)
@@LoveKills250 Your stamens is correct.
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Awesome documentary. Thank you
That view is spectacular ‼️
😂 in African standards this is a holiday not a prison! 😊
Haïti too 😂😂😂that’s luxury.
What a beautiful place to be in prison!
When the History do alien shows, I go online to see more WELT Doc's. Great job by these guys.
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History channel has fallen so far.
Absolutely beautiful place!
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Most of them admit their crimes and take pride in saying they never hurt anyone physically
That's not a prison! That's a luxury resort.
Lifestyle and daily life. Thank❤
Man I would have loved to have done my prison time in a place like this instead of the Drumheller Institution....
Your hard
Drumheller aint that bad,there's way worse prisons in Canada than drumheller ,millhaven makes drumheller look like a juvenile detection center
@donkeyballs3307 so I've heard.... I've done time in Bowden Penitentiary and Drumheller Penitentiary and Drum was the worst prison I've personally been in
@samoday2992 no I'm not I was young and dumb and made some horrible decisions which I paid for dearly
Ex cons watch prison documentary?
I would take this island over Rikers Island any day of the week
The men who are imprisoned on Gorgona and who work there do not have that wild animal look in their eyes that so many have in the cruel and overcrowded prisons that are designed only for inhumane punishment and torture.
The American prison system would do well to adopt some these practices and programs, to reduce the recidivism rate of released prisoners. Our system is forever broken....
This are NOT violent killing rapists or child molester no mentally ill they are just petty crooks kept away from the real animals in our USA they are thrown in as one 18 year old weed dealer with 3 times murderers and violent rapists
American prisoners are animals and subhuman savages...
Hello welt ...the best 😌
This is very good documentary. I wish all the prisoners and staff the best. I hope the prisoners go back to society and stay the true course of a productive life within the law. And I hope that someone will remove Alessandro's AK47 tattoo ( it will help with him getting employment ). Ciao a tutti. Al boca la lupo
Blessings to you all 🙏 from 🇬🇧 hello to aunty ❤
This is like hotel 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I wonder though why the guards choose to live there instead of working at a prison on the mainland. I wonder what their leave looks like etc
Wow! This "prison" is a holiday camp...I wouldn't mind a couple of weeks here myself. lol
That's the sought of prison we need here in our country run by an honest faith full prison chief and offices.
YO MAMA WANT YA IN SUCH PRISON?
What crimes would qualify one to end up here?
Insurrection….trying to steal an election…..stealing govt documents……trying to use false electors
Good to know😂
I asked that question myself.
Breaking spaghetti
Alessandro has two SONS, not mere 'children'.
What do you expect from feminized societies ... neutral and feminine nouns/pronouns are permitted, not masculine ones.
Yup, he's two boys, the best any father can wish for.
If only there would be more prisons like this where humanity remains and prevails so ppl can actually have a chance for changing.
The current prisons increase violence, solv nothing..if anything most inmates come out worse than when they first went in
"Welcome to paradise... sorry i mean prison..yes welcome to prison please enjoy your stay "
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A life sentence there would be better than a pardon elsewhere.
No one has broken out, but people keep trying to break in! It’s a real problem.
בס''ד נבקש תרגום מובנה בגוף הסרט כתוביות בשפה עברית להורדה והעתקה למחשב עם כתוביות מתורגמות בעברית בכל הסרטים תודה רבה
alcataz could learn something, america could learn something but they wont. alcatraz was closed after a few short years because of upkeep do to salt water and rust. um toytoas from the 90's bodies didn't rust, the frames built in america did. the trucks were scrapped because they would snap in half. while the bodies with clear rust didn't get any worse than surface rust. why, the quality of the steel. dayna who made the toyota frames claimed same spec as other manufacurers but clearly not. i have a 22 year old ford and the frame is perfect. same concept i recon.
If I had to serve time in Europe, I’ll choose this place in Italy.
Beats HMP Belmarsh that's for sure
All prisons should have work.
wrong translations on so many parts at 32:12 he said am not the boss lets say am responsible for this area at the garden...and i dont even speak italian like that but i caught so many wrong translations at the end of the day good doc i like it.
I wish more prisons were run that way and offered those opportunities.
Looking forward to this
These are cool docs . When are you gonna show the part where the guards bring in the drugs weapons and cell phones, or staging fights and betting on inmates . Or when sometimes the guards they might accidentally find an inmate unalived. Also these cells are almost bigger than my place .
"when sometimes the guards might accidentally find an inmate unalived" i actually dealt with that when i was a prison guard.
@@riotsquadgaming7460 that's maybe something you wanna keep to yourself . Considering what that statement implies . Hmm 😒
@@jamiebizness1 ?? I don't think it's odd for a c/o to find people who have unalived themselves. I think that's what the commenter meant
The low level American prisons should take note of this.
Looks like a nice place to getaway for awhile.
Good doc, good narration, music was a bit too intense for a Utopia like this.
The food looks good I know it's prison but damn it' seems pretty nice
Each prisoner is forced to learn an occupation, as well as, self control! It's interesting, but their prison black market must be odd! Drone's deliveries?
some how those gates don't seem used to be closed, I think they are open all the time.
Well, who would want to leave? It's probably left that way to scare the prisoners.
Last? There is Suomenlinna in Finland but it's not just a prison island it's also open to the public.
it's more like a prison on island than prison island i guess :)
@@mauri906 huh??
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Something I’m curious about is what is the compensation for the correction officers working there?
Are used to be a correctional officer myself in the states.
But I mean like there’s got to be some sort of benefit to transfer there otherwise, why would you choose to be away from your family, your friends and I’m presuming for safety they can’t just have those people stay with them on the island.
Does anyone know do they get like a double salary thing or a huge bonus for working there again? I’m just curious how that works and why an officer would choose to work at that facility. It’s a beautiful place but you’re giving up your life just like the inmates are completely.
So on the mainland the prison guards don’t earn a living wage⁉️Can’t afford a house❓Shame.
They can't afford VILLAS on a beautiful island
I would love to live there .
Your sure???
Who wouldn't?
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We have a prison island in Norway too ... Bastøy near Oslo
Please imprison me on an island with the guard at 13:56 😂
Those cooking sketches are nearly all in Cornwall.
How many foreigners are housed on this island as a prisoner?
not many maybe 10 percent mostly Arabs that one asian looked vietnamese
Angelo the 'baker' still hasn't quite worked out that Pizza is fattening , either that or he insists on taste testing everything he cooks 😄
Vacation time, not prison time. Seriously, it is a good idea. Maybe it will help the inmates become more law-abiding. It is more humane than, say, the prison in Brazil.
I think that this prison, which is different than many others, but is still prison, might be an ideal setting for so many men and women who have potential and are motivated to move in with their lives, in a different direction from what put them there. I know that in the US we have special prisons but the violence and return rates remain so high. There are other ways, like the above, to actually "reform" people other than to throw them into a box for however many years, let them go only to see them come back, for so many different reasons. Finland is experimenting with new, "open" prisons...and it is working. Give people something to do, nurture, every day..and the majority will. Of course, there will always be chronic people always going in and out of prison...but at least a prison like the above, offers hope and not a place which will box you in until your release date..in my opinion. PS...take a look at Rikers, in NYC, if you want to see why the system must change.
So Bastøy in Norway doesn't count as an prison island?
15:55 Wow! Those are some seriously heavy doors!
Hats off to the only resident living there
Where is Luigi lol😂😂😂
This is how prison should be.
This is not the last remaining prison island. There's at least another, namely Bastøy in Norway.
Kinda have that movie "Escape from New York" Vibe! But this seems like vacation
are they busting cheeks and splitting wigs in Gorgona?
Why does that aspect interest you? 😂
@@saltycreole2673 cheeks
Yes Daddy ❤❤❤
Big Herc crew in the house ! 😂😂😂
Its like a holiday destination...how do i get here😂 seriously whats not to like!😎🇮🇹
Easy time
I would consider this as my retirement plan from Crimes lol
What a waste of beautiful land! This literally is the Club Med of prisons. I wonder how much tourism dollars is lost just for keeping this island as a prison. Ever see the Dustin Hoffman’s movie “papillon”? This is a joke of a prison.
If it brings the reoffending rate down even by 1% it's worth it. Reoffending rate is not just a number, sometimes it's literally human lives that won't get murdered down the road
How do I apply for a room there for life?
That lady at the end 🥰
YO MAMA LIKE THAT LADY SHE FRIEND?
@@yaad2226 I don’t speak Arabic brother.
YO MAMA SPEACK ARABIC??@@Lee-ke9mx
I'll have a life sentence please if you don't mind looks amazing 😉
No chance of parole, please.
20 years is the maximum these prisonors have?. In the US there are people locked up for 300 years.
Maybe they can get their sentences extended with good behavior 😁.
How many men are house here? Fifty? Seems nice for a very small, well behaved group of inmates but I don’t think it would work on a larger scale.
If more prison's were like this less people would return
What a beautiful place... prison and all
This looks 100 times better than the hotel I stayed at in Majorca
how do I get a rezzy????
Only thing the video did not cover was medical.
This is jus a very long vacation😂😂
After seeing this and Germany and the one in Russia. It's refreshing to see that even though the American prison system is soft it's not this bad
Sounds like a work release program. Check in check out be accountable.
Gorgona" means "mermaid" in Greek