He enters prison as a life sentence but if he comes out, sooner or later, he will be a humanist and man of letters. Giuseppe Perrone, locked up in a cell for thirty years, achieves his fourth degree. This time in the presence, in the Tor Vergata university, thanks to a special permission to discuss the thesis that was issued for the first time ever in the Roman university
Perrone, who is now 56 years old, is originally from Trepuzzi, a large town in the north of Lecce, and like several of his countrymen, he found himself a protagonist, in the 1980s, in the whirlwind that led to the emergence of the so-called “fourth mafia”, the Sacra united crown.