Taxpayer cash funding belly dancing classes in prison
Female prisoners will be encouraged to keep fit and lose weight by taking belly dancing classes.
Convicts are being offered courses in the Middle Eastern folk dance to help them shed a few pounds and stay in shape.
Public money is also being spent on yoga and Zumba dance classes for the 425 inmates at HMP New Hall near Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Taxpayers' cash will be spent on belly dancing classes, yoga and Zumba lessons for the 425 inmates at HMP New Hall near Wakefield, West Yorkshire (stockphoto)
Muslim prisoners are being given the option of wearing ‘bandanna-style headgear’ rather than a ‘cumbersome’ hijab in a bid to encourage the women to take exercise.
The courses were highlighted in a report by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), a watchdog that checks conditions inside prisons and removal centres.
But critics will raise eyebrows at the fact that even more taxpayers’ cash is being spent on leisure for inmates at the closed category prison, which is home to 40 women serving life sentences.
The report said: ‘The gym continues to offer sessions for the over 50’s, remedial classes for those with a disability, injury or weight problems.
‘Sessions to include Muslim women led by a female instructor and with bandanna style headwear to replace the more cumbersome and restrictive hijab.
‘New classes are proposed that will include Zumba, yoga and belly dancing.’
The study also said drugs were being smuggled into the jail by being sprayed on children’s drawings.
It does not specify the type of narcotics but there are concerns across the prison estate of how much ‘zombie drug’ Spice is being used by inmates.
The prison is closed category, and houses 40 women serving life sentences (file photo of female prisoner)
The synthetic cannabis, which often leaves addicts unable to walk or speak, is often sprayed on to paper and sent to inmates in the form of letters.
Prisoners either steam the letter with a kettle to get high off the vapour or shred it to smoke with tobacco.
The report said: ‘Drugs remain a concern within the establishment with ever more creative ways being found to get drugs in. Children’s drawings made using wax crayons has been one of the more recent methods of getting drugs into the prison.’
In April, it was reported how foreign criminals are learning to make cocktails at an immigration removal centre.
Suspected illegal immigrants are being offered training courses in how to be mixologists while awaiting deportation… or release back onto Britain’s streets.
Public money is being spent teaching them how to be bartenders specialising in alcohol-free fruit cocktails â€" known as ‘mocktails’ â€" at Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) in Lincolnshire.
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