One job skill that prisoners are not lagging behind in is making coffee, with a third at one jail having trained as baristas.
Inspectors praised the prison for providing their inmates with an addition to their CV they can put to use when their sentences are up.
They found 34 of the 90 women at HMP East Sutton Park, an open prison in Kent, had passed a barista training course in the past year.
The 20hr City & Guilds course trains them to make a range of coffees, from espressos to cappuccinos and flat whites.
And the Independent Monitoring Board noted a 100% success rate.
They said the jail, one of the top performing prisons in the UK, had “maintained its commitment to getting residents into outside employment”.
