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A couple who both work at a prison are getting ready for Christmas Day with the inmates.
Juan and Lisa Mouton, from Wrexham, who both work at HMP Berwyn, will be organising a park run for 100 well-behaved prisoners before rushing home to celebrate their daughter's 15th birthday.
Juan, 41, is a physical education trainer at the prison, and he'll be spending his Christmas morning supervising a park run with prisoners serving time for various crimes. After that, he'll hurry home for lunch and some family time. Lisa, 39, is the prison's custodial manager and she'll be working a night shift on New Year's Day. But on Christmas Day, she'll be celebrating their eldest daughter's birthday along with their other three children.
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The couple say their kids "know no different" and when dealing with society's worst, it's best to leave your problems "at the gate".
"We have a shift pattern and outside of that we have to devise our own home shift pattern so that we know at any one time if one of us is in work the other one is off," Lisa told PA Real Life.
"Nobody wants to be here over Christmas, not us, not the prisoners," said Juan.
Juan and Lisa, a couple who met while working as prison officers at HMP Prison Feltham in South London in 2005, now live in Wrexham with their four young children. "We were one short and so I needed to borrow a staff member off the unit and it just so happened to be Lisa," Juan recalled, to which Lisa jokingly responded, "Worst decision of my life that,"
In 2017, they moved to Wrexham after
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