How maximum security prison inmates and officers worked together to create a farm behind bars
- Written by Christian Tietz, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
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...