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Football training scheme for prisoners: Ian Wright interview; ENGLAND: London: Pentonville Prison: INTHilton Freund (Twinning Project CEO) interview SOT- Working in prisons is incredibly exciting for us as a charity that works within the football space / the people that start our courses here, a football based education provision, encouraging those resistant to education into education, turns people who begin their journey as inmates into teammates- (You have vowed to make sure that partnerships are long lasting in the outside world) The Twinning Project is a national network; we work with over 73 of the countries 92 football clubs throughout the leagues, Premier League down to League Two and even into the National League / the beauty of having that network of football clubs across the country means that when people graduate from the Twinning Project and are ultimately released from prison, whether they are released into London, Leeds or Liverpool, they have a football club they can reach out to that will provide them with further signposting, further pathways, further employment opportunities- (How competitive is it to get on this course) Getting on this course is something to be congratulated in itself / there is only room for up to sixteen people on a course and we only offer the course three times a year in each of the prisons / for an inmate or teammate to have got on the course is to be congratulated; there are waiting lists of over 120 people in each of the prisons where we offer the Twinning Project programme- (Is this working) It's absolutely working / we're seeing improved levels of behaviour whilst still incarcerated, levels of adjudication and disciplinaries are decreasing / we're seeing our graduates find work in the football supply chain; upon release they're working as baristas, in catering, in grounds keeping, in stewarding on match days / most importantly, our academic partners, one of which is Oxford University has identified a...