Inmates At This Prison Can Buy Pizza, Ice Cream Using Monopoly-Style Money

HMP Oakwood, the biggest jail in England situated in Featherstone, Staffordshire, has launched Britain’s first in-prison grocery store. In collaboration with meals retailer Iceland, the jail now includes a grocery store the place inmates should purchase branded treats like Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and well-liked Chicago Town pizzas, which aren’t obtainable within the common jail canteen, reported The Times.

What units this retailer aside is its foreign money system. Inmates use Monopoly-style cash earned by means of good behaviour on the Category C jail. The incentive scheme permits them to earn as much as 25 kilos (round Rs 2800) per week, reported the Daily Mail. What’s extra, costs at this jail department are decrease than these at Iceland’s high-street shops.

The in-prison grocery store is a component of a bigger initiative to recreate a procuring centre atmosphere inside a large warehouse throughout the jail, dubbed the ‘market’. Alongside Iceland, it includes a espresso store named Hopeful Grounds run by inmate baristas, a contemporary produce stall with fruits and veggies, and a leisure retailer referred to as JP Sports.

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The market is designed to assist inmates transition extra easily into society after launch, with some additionally employed within the retailer as a part of their rehabilitation. The program was the brainchild of HMP Oakwood’s head of employability Carly Balis, who helps establish inmates appropriate for a task on the in-prison Iceland department. 

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, has praised the mission as “unusually effective” and final yr named HMP Oakwood the primary jail in England. He referred to as it “the best prison I have seen in my time as Chief Inspector.”