In Rome, a Pub & Shop sells quality products created behind bars (photo)

PUB SHOP ROME PRISON PRODUCTS

A pub and a shop where you can discover the world of prison products . Pub&shop Vale la Pena has opened its doors in Rome , a place where you can enjoy "quality products and values, which emanate aromas and people." Inside, in fact, craft beers , cheeses, coffee, biscuits , pasta are sold, as well as bags and T-shirts that have a common denominator: having been produced or made by people serving a sentence . Pub&shop Vale la Pena is located at Via Eurialo 22 in Rome , a few steps from the Furio Camillo metro station, and is the result of the commitment and dedication of a series of associations active throughout the country, which work daily to enable prisoners to build a better future for themselves by learning a trade while in prison.

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PUB&SHOP PRISON ECONOMY

The Vale la Pena Pub & Shop stocks products from many Italian prisons , all united by the fight against recidivism. Prison economics projects, in fact, aim to prevent people serving a sentence from reoffending once they are released. Data shows that the recidivism rate among those not eligible for alternative measures to prison is much higher than among those placed in productive and qualifying projects . This demonstrates that work and training initiatives behind bars, in addition to making the experience of detention less oppressive and more humane, contribute concretely to the mission of re-education and reintegration into society that penitentiaries should have.

PRISON MADE PRODUCTS

The Vale la Pena Pub & Shop has been decorated with a "theme." Stepping inside feels like entering an old-fashioned prison, but one that still harbors good intentions and wholesome values. The bar's culinary offerings range from "Vale la Pena" beers, brewed by inmates admitted to external labor from Rome's Rebibbia prison, to Cibo Agricolo Libero cheeses and Caffè Galeotto. But that's not all; among other things, there are also: Campo dei Miracoli Taralli from Trani prison, Cotti in Fragranza biscuits from Malaspina in Palermo, GiglioLab srl pasta from Ucciardone, and Farina nel sacco breadsticks from Turin prison. In addition to food and drinks, the Vale la Pena Pub & Shop also sells clothing and accessories , such as Malefatte bags from Venice prison and extraliberi T-shirts from Turin prison.

RE-EDUCATION AND PRISON REINTEGRATION PROJECTS

• Free agricultural food: Inmates in Rebibbia prison produce quality cheeses.
• Freedhome, the shop that gives prisoners a future by selling products made in prison.
• Papageno Choir, Bologna prison inmates sing with volunteers. In the name of Abbado.
• Swings in Treviso prison to allow inmates to play with their children