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Over one year after opening, Cardiff\u2019s prison charity restaurant The Clink<\/a> is busier than ever, but most impressively none of its released employees have had to come back.<\/p>\n

\"Poetry

The charity aims to prepare prisoners for life after release in a rehabilitative environment, and it seems to be working. The Cardiff branch menu changes each week to give the staff more dishes to learn.<\/p>\n

The Clink may look like any other restaurant with the tables as smartly dressed as the waiters, but when you look a little closer the walls are decorated with photographs and poems created by the prisoners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole idea is to change people\u2019s perception of prisoners,\u201d the general manager Jason Lawrence explains, \u201clots of people still question when they come in \u2018Are they all prisoners?\u2019 and yes, yes they are, and they are very, very skilled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The charity\u2019s restaurant is having effective results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":17996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[131,3083,3084,22,1964,3085,609,2839],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-charity","tag-clink","tag-clink-cymru","tag-food-2","tag-prison","tag-rehabilitation","tag-restaurant","tag-the-clink-charity"],"yoast_head":"\nClink Cymru is one year older and a growing success - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/10\/31\/clink-cymru-is-one-year-older-and-a-growing-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clink Cymru is one year older and a growing success - 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