Canberra's prison has been criticised repeatedly in independent reports for offering detainees relatively few capabilities for self-improvement to alleviate the terminal boredom behind bars.
But among the well-meaning folk at the Murrumbateman Landcare Group, the horticultural skills and efforts by a small group of prisoners at the Alexander Maconochie Centre are making a difference outside the wire - even if the prisoners can't get to see it.
