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Pruno, or prison wine, is an alcoholic liquid made from apples, oranges, fruit cocktail, ketchup, sugar, bread, and possibly other ingredients. Pruno originated in prisons, where it can be produced cheaply, easily, and discreetly.

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Its taste has been described as “bile-flavored wine cooler” – not exactly something to build a marketing campaign around. It’s been a mainstay of prison culture for decades – a homemade alcoholic concoction whose classic recipe is detailed in a poem by Jarvis Jay Masters, a death row inmate in San Quentin state prison.

Pruno.

The homemade brew, named after the prunes that originally were its main ingredient, made headlines this week after Orange County sheriff deputies quelled a disturbance Sunday at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange. Immigration detainees at the jail had gotten upset over random searches that turned up several batches of pruno that were promptly confiscated – the first such pruno-related disturbance in county-operated jails in 2 ½ years, said Sgt. Jim Avant, who oversees jail compliance and training for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “Not to say there haven’t been some incidents in the past, but this was the first involving pruno in a while,” Avant said. Although the alcoholic drink – basically fermented fruit juice – is more associated with inmates doing long stretches in state prisons, pruno also turns up frequently in county jail cells that see a much higher turnover rate of inmates. Avant reviewed jail incident logs from 2009 through May 31 this year and found that in 2009, there were 140 write-ups involving pruno and 181 last year. So far this year, there have been 74. To put those numbers in context, in any given month, there are about 5,400 inmates housed in Orange County’s three county-operated jails. “Our department is pretty good about getting in and searching (cells) on a regular basis before (pruno) incidents occur,” Avant said. Typically, those caught with pruno are “people in which being institutionalized is part of their lifestyle,” Avant said.

HOW TO MAKE PRUNO

Pruno is made from ingredients that inmates set aside from their regular meals, including fruits and condiments. In Orange County jails, that typically means oranges, cans of fruit cocktail and bread, Avant said. In Masters’ poem “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” the vile swill starts with oranges, a can of fruit cocktail and water. The mush is kept in a sealed plastic bag that is heated periodically with warm tap water and towels to start the fermentation process. After 48 hours, the amateur hooch-maker adds sugar and ketchup, and keeps the bag undisturbed for 72 hours.

The budding booze-hound then reheats the bag daily every 15 minutes.

After 72 hours, he or she opens the bag, skims off the mash and voila – pours a glass of pruno. Recipes for pruno are all over the Internet, including on the website The Black Table, which came up with the “bile-flavored wine cooler” description. The drink is known behind bars as juice, jump, raisin jack, brew, chalk and buck, according to Modern Drunkard magazine.

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In 2004, an informal pruno competition was held at the American Homebrewers Association’s National Homebrew Conference in Las Vegas, AHA director Gary Glass said. “I was very thankful that I did not judge that competition,” Glass said in an email, adding that his Boulder, Colo.-based organization isn’t in the business of promoting foul-tasting, homemade hooch. “We generally try to focus on helping brewers make beer that tastes good,” Glass said. Michael “Solo” Lynch, a native of Huntington Beach who has spent 13 of his 35 years incarcerated, said where there are inmates and cells, there’s pruno. “It’s very easy to make,” said Lynch, who is now the sober, law-abiding founder of the mixed martial arts fights “Cage vs. Cons.” “At any time, anywhere, you’ll find pruno,” Lynch said – even at Juvenile Hall and the California Youth Authority, where he spent a combined seven years. Sent to state prison for six years for dealing drugs and guns, the entrepreneurial Lynch said he made good money selling pruno. Typically, most pruno ranges in alcoholic content between a weak beer and a strong wine – or about 3 to 15 percent alcohol. “I could make it in three days,” said Lynch, who took pruno a step further by distilling it into an 80-proof drink he called Lightening. “It tasted like vodka,” Lynch said of Lightening, which he sold for $50 a batch at a cost to him of only about $8. “It was one of my most profitable businesses inside,” said Lynch, who trafficked in other contraband like porn magazines. When sugar can’t be found to add to a fermenting pulp of fruit, jelly, syrup or Kool-Aid will do the trick, Lynch said. Because pruno is so prevalent in prison and jail, “it’s no big deal” when an inmate gets caught with it, Lynch said. Typically, the offender is mildly disciplined, he said. Avant said a person caught with pruno in Orange County Jail typically faces a loss of privileges, including visits to the commissary or day room and restricted time with visitors.

“It’s considered a major write-up,” he said.

“The sheriff’s department is concerned and deputies are vigilant about locating and confiscating any form of pruno … to prevent incidents similar to what happened at Theo Lacy from happening again.”