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How maximum security prison inmates and officers worked together to create a farm behind bars

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How maximum security prison inmates and officers worked together to create a farm behind barsMacquarie Correctional Centre Media Unit

At Macquarie Correctional Centre in western New South Wales, a story of collaboration and persistence is unfolding. Inmates and prison officers are farming commercial quantities of fresh food in a purpose-built indoor facility.

One of the 400 male offenders in maximum security at Macquarie contacted me with...

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