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The listening exercises in Business Spotlight Plus (p.15) are based on the text “On redemption row” (Names & News, p. 12 in the magazine). Here, we provide you with the audio file and transcript.
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On redemptionWiedergutmachungredemption rowhier: Traktrow
“You may be Mr Big on the wingFlügel, Traktwing, but that means nothing in here,” a young offenderStraftäter(in)offender at HM (Her/His Majesty’s) Prison (UK)Bezeichnung für Gefängnisse im Vereinigten KönigreichHM Prison Aylesbury in England told the Financial Times. “Here” is a state-of-the-arthochmodernstate-of-the-art coffee roaster and cafe designed to help young men aged 17 to 21 to become baristas and increase their chances of finding work after prison.
The wheels: set the ~ in motiondie Hebel (für etw.) in Bewegung setzenwheels were set in motion in 2016 by prison administrator Lee Johnson, then responsible for reducing reoffenderneut straffällig werdenreoffending, when he asked coffee wholesalerGroßhändler(in)wholesalers Max Dubiel and Ted Rosner if they would be willing to help train prisoners as baristas. In turn, Dubiel and Rosner asked if it would be possible to roast their coffee in prison; the prison offered them and their business partner Harry Graham the use of a well-ventilatedbelüftetventilated former kitchen. “The transformation cost over £80,000 [€91,000], money we raised via our backerUnterstützer(in)backers,” Graham says. “This was not easy, as the prison has a fairly restrictive code of practiceVerhaltenskodexcode of practice on even which plumbing companyInstallationsfirmaplumbing company can be used. But now we’re established and are roasting up to three tonnes of coffee beans a week.”
Bearing the label Redemption roasterRösterRoasters, the coffee is bag sth.etw. in Tüten abfüllenbagged and transported to warehouseLager(halle)warehouses in Dorset before being sold to wholesale customers in Britain and Germany. “When you are in here, you are treated like an employee, not like a prisoner, because you are fulfilling a real-life job,” Aylesbury warder (UK)Gefängniswärter(in)warder Marc Wioland comments.