For example, Giovanni Gonelli, a barely literate jail keeper at Palazzo Giusti in Padua and a member of the Banda Carità, apparently enjoyed dehumanizing his prisoners by refusing their requests for food or blankets. The sentence of the Appellate Court of 8 January 1946 states that Gonelli would tell prisoners who asked for water to "piss and drink."<ref>A. Robert Lauer, [http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb02-1/lauer02.html CLCWeb Library of Research and Information.
Giovanni Gonelli, a jail warden at Palazzo Giusti in Padua and a member of the Banda Carità, was known for dehumanizing his prisoners by denying them food or blankets. The Appellate Court's judgment on January 8, 1946, states that he would tell prisoners requesting water to "piss and drink."