Prisoners at top security jails get smoothies and lentil burgers at New Year

New 12 months’s menus have been put collectively for prisoners at prime safety jails in England (Image: Dan Kitwood/Getty Photographs/Ministry of Justice)

Prisoners at excessive safety jails will likely be served up wholesome meals together with iced mango smoothies and lentil seed burgers on New 12 months’s Day. 

Roast pork, salmon and braised steaks with child potatoes are additionally on the January 1 menus at 5 males’s prisons in England which maintain a number of the nation’s most harmful offenders.  

At HMP Frankland, the choice contains ‘cheatin’ beef stroganoff’ for the vegan choice and a halal diced pepper beef casserole.  

A ‘wholesome choice’ is salmon and sauce, with all of the dishes having the selection of trimmings together with roast potatoes, carrots, Brussels sprouts and gravy. 

The dessert choice for tomorrow’s lunch serving on the jail in County Durham is apple crumble and custard or fruit cocktail, with vegan pasties and tuna mayo rolls among the many tea time choices. 

The jail, which is classed as Class A, that means it homes inmates who pose essentially the most risk to the general public, the police or nationwide safety, has a seasonal menu adorned with footage of Santa Claus.

One of the crucial notorious prisoners was the Yorkshire Ripper, , earlier than his dying in November 2020.

Serial killer Levi Bellfield, who's serving two whole-life sentences for the murders of three individuals, is among the many present inmates.

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At HMP Manchester, a neatly-arranged grid menu with indicators denoting dietary necessities invitations prisoners to put ticks towards their orders.

The dishes embody braised steak cooked within the oven with onions served with child potatoes and greens and diced rooster marinated in Indian spices with boiled rice and naan bread.  

Dessert on the Class A and B jail is a mango and orange iced smoothie.  

The jail’s record of infamous inmates through the years has included Britain’s most prolific serial killer Harold Shipman, who was held there earlier than his trial, and Moors assassin Ian Brady. 

Inmates at HMP Wakefield can select from dishes together with a lentil blended seed burger and bun, vegetable lasagne and a halal rooster leg, with sides of chips and peas. Vegan, meat or tuna baps can be found for tea on the Class A jail in West Yorkshire. 

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Prisoners at Belmarsh have a wholesome vary of menu objects to select from over the festive season

Meals packs have been organized for inmates, together with one for vegans which consists of lotus biscuits, a packet of crisps, juice, a espresso drink, a caramel apple traycake and fruit. 

Prisoners on the jail embody assassin Jeremy Bamber, who killed 5 members of his family, black cab rapist John Worboys and Roy Whiting, who murdered Sarah Payne.  

At Belmarsh, a no-thrills grid menu lists decisions together with a vegan pie, roast pork, southern fried fish and rooster balti for the primary night meal of 2023. 

The Class A jail’s black-and-white record makes use of capitals to warn inmates to not write on or harm the perimeters of the shape because it won't be able to be learn by a pc. Cake and custard or rice are the afters listed on the jail in Thamesmead, east London.  

Present and previous inmates embody Soham killer Ian Huntley, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the good prepare robber Ronnie Biggs and Henry Lengthy, Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, the three killers of PC Andrew Harper.

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At HMP Full Sutton the brand new 12 months’s lunch menu has choices together with halal roast rooster leg, soya mince chilli and rooster or vegan mushroom stroganoff. Trimmings on the Class A and B jail embody roasted potatoes, rice, peas and sweetcorn and gravy. 

For tea, the kitchen has organized objects together with deli ham, vegan cheese and roasted nut salad and pickles and beetroot salad.

Dessert on the jail within the East Using of Yorkshire is a selection between a bit of melon with vegan flapjack or a fruit pie with strawberry ice cream.

The menus have been launched by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) below the Freedom of Data Act after a request by Metro.co.uk.

Whereas festive provisions have been made on the jails, possibilities for inmates to socialize have been restricted over the previous two years.  

In January, The Howard League for Penal Reform mentioned that prisoners in England and Wales had spent lengthy durations locked in cells throughout Covid as diminished regimes have been carried out in a ‘failing, overcrowded system’.

In its response to the Freedom of Data request, the MoJ mentioned: ‘Meals in prisons over Christmas are paid for from throughout the current finances and at no additional price to the taxpayer. 

‘Jail guidelines require that prisoners are supplied with three meals a day which might be assorted and nutritious and that meet the spiritual, cultural, and medical wants of all. His Majesty’s Jail and Probation Service is working carefully with catering managers and suppliers to make sure finest worth for cash at a time of rising meals costs.’  

The day by day allowance for a prisoner is £2.02 per day. 

The MoJ maintains that in step with the brand new elevated monetary duties governors have, the quantity spent on meals, together with for spiritual events, is a call made domestically. 

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