The prisoners spun the prison business for the sale of clothing

In Germany, the prisoners spun the prison clothing business. Here it is the last squeak of fashion - T -shirts, stylish handbags and shorts, carefully sewn by drug dealers, killers and thieves sitting behind bars.

These things are produced under the HaEFTLING label - “prisoner”, but this word can also be translated as “captured” and “fascinated”. It seems that it is in this state that fashionistas and fashionistas are in, Reuters notes.

The general line of the label is a minimum of experiments, everything has already been invented. A three -year -old conclusion for drug trafficking Matthias Meyenberg sews a special shirt: before, only prisoners could wear such, now anyone can go for a modest fee in such defiant clothes by making an order over the Internet. “I have a lot of friends in the wild, who can kill in order to only get one,” says Mattias, “the little things are funny and provoking.”

“There is not much work here, it’s better to sew than to stare at the camera wall,” says Meyenberg, who is separated from fans of a dozen steel doors and a prison wall entangled by three kilometers of barbed wire.

Indeed, only 60% of the prisoners of the Berlin prison have a job, and therefore the prison administration and city authorities provide Maienberg with all -hearted support, because he will very soon need skillful hands: his "studio" will create up to 50 jobs.

German prisoners have been selling prison clothes through a store at a prison since 1898, but the robes became truly popular only after the opening of the online store www.haeftling.de. The idea of ​​creating belongs to Stefan more from the Berlin Marketing Agency of Herr Ledesi. “Everything is won: the convicts have a job, buyers have good quality clothes, and you need less taxes for the maintenance of prisons, since everything is on self -sufficiency,” says more.

In the first week of work, the online store sold 1,500 different prison things. This significantly exceeded the expectations of more, although exclusive clothes are not cheap, price tags from 25 to 100 euros. Currently, the site has a notification that "because of the frenzied popularity of HaEFTLING clothing, we cannot accept new orders."

A significant part of the money earned on fashionable prison clothes goes to the treasury of Berlin, the remaining goes to prison, where prisoners receive a small increase in the daily "salary": on a good day, 12 euros. Meyenberg says: "An extra fifty dollars in a month plays a large role. I can buy guns, sweets, tobacco or coffee."

The killer of Krista Katurzak, who is engaged in the manufacture of bags, is also very pleased with his work: he likes it much more than the previous one, where he had to make cases for car seats. “Anyone can buy such a portfolio. I only hope that he will not be a drug dealer,” Kataturzak says with a smile, the term of conclusion of which expires in 10 years.

Obviously, the fluidity of personnel does not threaten the fashion atelier.