Gordon Behind Bars

TX: Summer

Gordon Ramsay wants to send prisoners back to work and make them pay their way.

Each prisoner costs taxpayers a staggering £38,000 a year; that's more expensive than sending a child to Eton. And the number of prisoners in the UK has increased by over 17,000 in the last 10 years, placing a strain on public finances.

In this series, Gordon attempts to get prisoners working and paying something back into the system, while giving them the right skills to make them more employable on their release. He will serve his time in HMP Brixton and set up Bad Boys Bakery, training up a group of prisoners who are doing time for offences including theft, burglary and robbery.

Gordon is giving the prisoners the opportunity to gain a nationally recognised qualification and then putting them to work in a pilot prison bakery business. ‘Learning and Earning' is the motto and it's the first honest day's work many of the prisoners have ever done.

By teaching them culinary skills, Gordon hopes to help the prisoners get a job in catering, and hopefully stop them getting into any more trouble on the outside. But Gordon soon discovers that setting up a business behind bars is no piece of cake.

Production company
One Potato Two Potato