Struggling jail spends £10,000 to show inmates methods to click on fingers and stamp ft to songs like Pharrell Williams’ Blissful to allow them to handle their anger

A struggling jail is spending practically £10,000 on educating inmates methods to stamp their ft and click on their fingers.

Prisoners are being taught methods to use their our bodies to handle their anger via a ‘physique percussion’ programme, in keeping with The Solar.

It has been reported that inmates participate within the class to songs equivalent to Blissful by Pharrell Williams  and Cannot Cease the Feeling by Justin Timberlake.

HMP Dartmoor in Devon has signed a year-long contract with Wiltshire agency Kaboom!. 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) stated the deal for ‘cognitive-based remedy workshops’ has value the jail £9,600.

The Jail Service instructed The Solar that schemes equivalent to this one ‘assist lower crime.’ 

It has been reported that inmates participate within the class to songs equivalent to Blissful by Pharrell Williams and Cannot Cease the Feeling by Justin Timberlake

The prisoners are taught to make use of totally different physique elements to create music, equivalent to clapping their fingers or slapping their thighs.

A Labour supply instructed the outlet: ‘Our jail system is in whole chaos. This transfer beggars perception and could be laughable if the Tories weren’t totally incapable of holding the general public protected.’

HMP Dartmoor was discovered to not present inmates with sufficient residing circumstances and prisoners have been discovered to be locked of their cells for too lengthy. 

It was additionally found that the Class C jail was not offering inmates with adequate training and work alternatives.

In line with MoJ, the speed of assaults in prisons was 285 assaults per 1,000 prisoners, which is up by 9 per cent from the 12 months to June 2022.