{"id":20763,"date":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p084yk4v"},"modified":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","slug":"confessions-of-a-mafia-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/02\/27\/confessions-of-a-mafia-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a mafia boss"},"content":{"rendered":"Across Italy hundreds of mafia leaders, hitmen and drug-traffickers are being jailed thanks to the most powerful weapon now in the hands of Italy\u2019s anti-mafia investigators: the words of one clan against another. Italy\u2019s state collaborator scheme has seen mafia chiefs breaking the code of silence - in return for a lifetime in witness protection, rather than a life behind bars. For Assignment, Dominic Casciani gets exclusive access to an anti-mafia prison to meet one of Naples' most important \u201cPenitents\u201d - a boss and killer whose evidence has jailed his associates. In the city itself, he witnesses, alongside hardened investigators, the ongoing nightly battle against the Camorra - and also hears voices of hope across the city that the tide has finally turned. \n\nPresenter: Dominic Casciani\nProducer: Sheila Cook \n\nImage: Gennaro Panzuto \nCredit: Private\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p084yk4v\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across Italy hundreds of mafia leaders, hitmen and drug-traffickers are being jailed thanks to the most powerful weapon now in the hands of Italy\u2019s anti-mafia investigators: the words of one clan against another. Italy\u2019s state collaborator scheme has s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598641,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763\/revisions\/1598641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}