Inmates in two of Britain’s highest-profile prisons are learning chess as part of a new pilot scheme designed to combat boredom and channel aggression.
The programme began earlier this month inside HMP Wandsworth, one of the country’s most crowded jails, and HMP Isis, for young male offenders. But the aim is to roll out the scheme across Britain, with 50 prisons actively teaching chess by 2020.
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