InGalera, the new restaurant in Bollate prison where inmates work.

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Reservations are required to enter. Then, when you arrive at the entrance booth, Bollate Prison In Milan, you literally have to be “escorted” into the courtyard where the venue is located.

It's called playfully “In Jail” and it's the new restaurant, unique in Italy, where the detainees. Open for lunch and dinner, it welcomes customers with awarm atmosphereThe decor is modern and fun. The walls are adorned with posters from films such as “The Green Mile” o “The Shawshank Redemption”.

The service is also excellent: the prisoners on duty are graduates at the 'Paolo Frisi Hotel Management Institute and work under the control of a professional master and the Chef Ivan Manzo.

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The cuisine is characterised by the choice of raw materials, high quality, and for a menu elaborate, but with a excellent value for money.

The average cost for a starter and a main course, plus wine, is around 20-25 euro.

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The idea of ​​a restaurant inside the prison she came to the former director in 2004, Lucia Castellano, and was carried forward by the new manager, Massimo Parisi.

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Un project which arises from the happy example of ABC Catering, the social cooperative of professional chefs, which under the experience of Silvia Polleri offers a high level of service.

And always the Cooperative, thanks to the support of Cariplo Foundation, Ministry of Justice, PWC Paolo Frisi Institute , Vismara Foundation, has also taken on this new challenge, which promises to be a great success.

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The goal, as Silvia Polleri explained to us, is to "offer regularly employed inmates the opportunity to re-engage in the culture of work through professional training, but above all through empowerment."

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"I hope," Polleri confided, "that one day one of these kids will come and tell me he's found a better job, where they pay him more. This would be our true calling." victory: that their professionalism and the work we have done here would also be recognized outside."

To close the circle, the intention would be to find a a cooperative that he took care of the green spaces of the prison, to put them to good use and create products to sell in the restaurant. This would create a virtuous circuit at km 0, employing even more inmates and ensuring even better customer service.

These important projects offer new hope and opportunities to those "in prison" as they prepare to serve their sentences. It's no coincidence, then, that the recidivism rate in Bollate is only 20%.