Governor Gary Milling rejects any suggestion that the event is a perk which prisoners do not deserve.
Governor Gary Milling rejects any suggestion that the weekly event is a perk which prisoners do not deserve
“This is all about making sure we create fewer victims in Northern Ireland society,” he Mr Milling added.Given the confined space, they have to run up and down an outdoor walkway six times.Instead, inmates run past prison huts, barbed wire and high fences. Another said: “I want to be healthy when I get out of jail. I don’t want to lie around and do nothing with my life.
A local running club, Springwell, has supported the event from the start and a number of its members took part in the 5km run on the morning we were filming. “What the prison service is trying to do is to break those old, toxic habits of the past,” Mr Milling said.Magilligan was the first prison parkrun on the island of Ireland and the second within the UK.On the parkrun website, it does not mention it is staged within a prison but does say it takes place “on a closed facility and is therefore open to authorised people only”.
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