Inmates spending Christmas Day in Welsh prisons will be tucking into special festive menus on December 25 and while there is plenty of turkey on the menu there are some more fancy options too. There are currently more than 5,000 prisoners in the six jails in Wales – HMP Swansea, HMP Cardiff, HMP Parc in Bridgend, HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, and HMP Usk and its satellite open prison HMP Prescoed, both of which are near Pontypool. All the prisons in Wales are for male inmates as there is no women’s facility in the country.
We asked the Ministry of Justice and the private firm G4S, which operates Parc prison, for details of what prisoners in Welsh jails will be eating on December 25. Each prison offers its own menu to its inmates and while there is plenty of traditional turkey and Christmas pudding on offer for Christmas dinner there are alternatives such as a beef and suet bake, smoked haddock and mozzarella patties with homemade tartare sauce, and vegetable wellington. Here is what inmates in Welsh prisons will be eating on Wednesday. For the latest court and crime news sign up to our crime newsletter here.
Swansea prison
Inmates waking up in 200 Oystermouth Road on December 25 will be starting the day with Weetabix, a hot cross bun, and a drink. The main event sees traditional roast turkey – including a halal bird – with stuffing, roast potatoes, sprouts, carrots, peas, Yorkshire pudding, and gravy or a salmon, cheese, and leek parcel. The vegan option is vegetable, cheese, and cranberry en croute. For dessert there is Christmas pudding and vanilla sauce or a halal or vegan spiced apple crumble. For tea in the evening there are “goodie bags” containing curry noodles, a packet soup, crisps, fresh fruit, a slice of fruit cake, and a choice of a steak slice, a halal chicken and mushroom slice, a plant-based sausage roll, or a cheese and onion slice.
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Cardiff prison
At HMP Cardiff the day will start with a “breakfast pack” and a croissant with strawberry jam. The lunch menu consists of a choice of beef or turkey, including halal turkey cordon bleu, or a “vegetable option” or a festive vegan slice. The mains come with trimmings including roast potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts, baby carrots, and Yorkshire pudding. For dessert there’s Christmas pudding and custard or fresh fruit. For the evening meal there’s a choice of chicken mayonnaise baguette with cranberry slaw and a steak bake, a peanut butter and banana wrap and no-meat sausage roll, or a halal egg mayo baguette and a lamb sausage roll. Christmas tea comes with Christmas cake and custard, crisps, and a satsuma.
Berwyn prison
Inmates at HMP Berwyn have plenty of choice on the festive menu. Christmas Day will start with cereal, yoghurt, fruit juice, a banana, a sausage bap, hot chocolate, and a mince pie. For lunch there’s a choice of vegetable wellington, salmon in Mornay sauce, or chicken with stuffing balls – all of which are halal suitable – as well as roast turkey with a savoury roulade or a beef and suet bake. All options come with with roast potatoes, buttered vegetables, and gravy. For pudding there is chocolate fudge cake. For tea in Berwyn there is a selection of sandwiches including cheese and onion, tuna mayo, chicken and ham, or a vegan cheese and tomato bap along with flavoured noodles, Christmas cake, chocolate biscuits, a muffin, a satsuma, and a packet of crisps.
Usk and Prescoed Prisons
Christmas Day for inmates at HMP Usk and Prescoed starts with a “festive breakfast pack” followed by a lunch of a “classic roast turkey with traditional trimmings”, roast chicken with pigs in blankets, a Quorn meat-free roast, smoked haddock and mozzarella patties with homemade tartare sauce, or a cheese and tomato quiche. For dessert there is Christmas pudding and vanilla sauce. The evening meal consists of a choice of gammon ham and spiced fruit chutney baguette, cheese and onion baguette, tofu and chilli baguette, or a festive turkey dinner slice.
Parc Prison
Parc Prison did not respond to our request about this year’s Christmas menu but in 2023 inmates in the Bridgend jail had a breakfast of cereal followed by hash browns and fried eggs. The main event of the day was a festive roast chicken or turkey with Yorkshire pudding and stuffing, or pigs in blankets with a vegetable pie, or a vegetable and cranberry bake. The halal-suitable option was salmon fishcake and tartare sauce. The mains came with with parsnips, roast potatoes, vegetables, and gravy. Dessert was Christmas pudding and cream. Christmas Day ended with an evening menu of a pork pie or a ham and mustard baguette alongside vegetable rosti, vegetable pie, or cheese pasty options together with snacks of crisps, brownies, and a pack of Skittles.
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