Chicago inmates can order fancy Italian pizza made in jail
CHICAGO — A Chicago jail has started offering gourmet Italian pizzas to inmates.
For the past few weeks, inmates have been able to order a pizza made by fellow inmates in a fancy $16,000 pizza oven.
It’s part of a training program designed to give inmates skills that can land them jobs when they are released. Inmates pay no more than $7 per pizza.
It’s all part of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s ongoing effort to make jail a bit more humane while providing inmates skills that might help keep them from returning once they’re set free.