Letters to death row: Italian project forges unlikely ‘beautiful friendships’

Rome, Nov 30 (EFE).- A decade after Laura Belloti became a pen pal to a Florida death row inmate, the 73-year-old boarded a plane and crossed the Atlantic to meet the person with whom she had forged a “beautiful friendship.”
Stefania Tallei, one of the organizers of the project by the Sant'Egidio charity, told Efe that the ethos of the scheme was to offer inmates a way of reconnecting with society.
FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF STEFANIA TALLEI.
(Camera: ANDREA CUESTA)