It is a full-bodied wine with a bouquet redolent of moldy peaches and a finish that can evoke everything from all-purpose bathroom cleaner to uric acid. In prisons, it is known as pruno -- cellblock ...

Pruno, or “prison wine” is an alcoholic liquid made by prisoners from assorted food items. Photo by Flickr user Puddin n Tang When an inmate at a Utah Prison altered his pruno “wine” recipe by adding ...

Explore the dangers of prison-made illicit alcohol, pruno, and its link to botulism outbreaks caused by Clostridium botulinum toxin. Microbial Misadventures is a recurring series on Body Horrors ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Deputies at a jail in the East Bay confiscated 200 gallons of prison-made liquor that inmates were making for a Super Bowl party, a sheriff's official said. Deputies found the liquor ...