Source: Nottingham Evening Post
NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, January 2, 2003: The strains of soul and reggae music are not what you would expect to hear emanating from the gym at Nottingham Prison. And even less, to find among the basketball hoops and badminton courts, about 40 prisoners milling around eating Caribbean food and reading about the development of the Hindu religion. Prison Governor Phil Wragg said, “We’ve been running a cultural diversity awareness program, to coincide with Black History Month and Ramadan. We have brought in outside organizations and have gotten staff and prisoners involved. We have displayed writings by prisoners, and have had a different menu each night this week.” In a prison where 17% of the 535 inmates are from ethnic minorities, and there are myriad religious and culture groups, running this sort of event seemed a logical step to the organizers.