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Zac Crellin

The companies profiting from prison labour authorities don’t want you to know about

The Borallon Training and Correctional Centre near Ipswich, Queensland, has been described as "a world leader in prison industries". Photo: AAP

Major companies including Qantas and Bunnings are relying on prison labour in a secretive production process slammed as “completely unethical” by a Victorian state MP.

Inmates are being paid less than $1 an hour to do menial tasks which provide no useful training for life after prison and which undercut the wages of ordinary workers.

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