A prison PE officer is starting a rugby course at HMP Wormwood Scrubs to help support and rehabilitate offenders
Nigel Seaman is one of the Service's biggest advocates of sport and fitness and has already introduced the Rugby Football Union Leadership Award course at HMP Chelmsford to great acclaim.
'The course combines rugby coaching, refereeing and leadership with first aid and safety and protection for children,' he explains. 'I'm pretty confident it will go down well at Scrubs.'
Nigel's course was chosen as runner up in the Outstanding Contribution to Working with Offenders category at the national Justice Awards in 2008, and also won a Sport Essex award in the same year.
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