You might not think that "inmates" and "fine dining" are words that should be used together, but Clink, a prisoner-run restaurant in Cardiff, Wales defies that notion. The 100-seat restaurant serves regional fare featuring organic produce grown at another prison; its interior decor is even made by inmates.
Inmates must be evaluated on their health, security threat level and behavior to work at Clink; even then, they're monitored with alarms and CCTV, according to Organic Authority. They'll each make £15, or about $23, per five-hour shift.
"Prisons should be places of hard work that address the root causes of offending behaviour and where prisoners pay their debt to society," a Prison Service spokesman told Wales Online. "Skills learned through schemes like this increase the likelihood of prisoners getting a job on release -- which reduces the chances of them reoffending -- and allows deductions from their wages to to be used for victims' services."
Would you ever eat at a prisoner-run restaurant?
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