Prisoners in one Cumbrian prison are getting active by joining the international Saturday morning phenomenon that is parkrun
At 9am on a Saturday, parks all over the UK are full of people limbering up for a free 5km run. What started in 2004 as a group of 13 friends in London’s Bushy Park has grown into an international, grassroots phenomenon. In November, parkrun added a group of prisoners at HMP Haverigg in Cumbria to its ranks – the first jail in the world to hold the event within its grounds.
The idea was the brainchild of Shane Spencer, a PE supervisor at Haverigg who has worked in prisons for more than 20 years. He was inspired after a survey revealed that 48% of prisoners didn’t attend the prison gym, mostly because they lacked confidence or motivation.
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