Lags enter hairdressing contest and get taught to deal with ‘tough shoppers’

Cons held a three-day hairdressing contest behind bars.

Criminals participating at HMP Oakwood in Staffs – which holds round 2,000 inmates – needed to full three completely different kinds.

One needed to be based mostly on a film star and one other was a reduce the barber thought he had a aptitude for.

The third class, referred to as “Haven’t Got”, was to profit from balding lags’ thinning locks.

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Inmates additionally discovered how you can clip beards and moustaches in addition to coping with “difficult clients”.

The contest was a part of a course run by the Vocational Training Charitable Trust. One prisoner, writing in lags’ magazine Inside Time, mentioned he was hopeful of getting a job after finishing the 12-week barbering information.

The inmate added the Oakwood Barbering Academy was a “flagship for any prisoner wanting to learn the barbering trade.

“I strongly recommend any prisoner interested in learning how to be a barber to request a transfer to Oakwood.”

Recent jail stories on HMP Oakwood praised the barbering course, saying outcomes had been “particularly high” for offenders.

Elsewhere within the UK, lags had been in a position to tee up for video games of pitch and putt at a comfortable jail dubbed the Savoy of Slammers – though stray balls typically zing over the jail partitions.

A report into HMP Leyhill, a 460-capacity open jail in Gloucester – the place half of all inmates are aged 50+ – said that its 9-hole course was nice for the ‘health and wellbeing’ of inmates.

Inspectors from the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) mentioned in a latest report that the jail ensured that older inmates had appropriate actions to maintain them match and wholesome.

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