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Isobel Roe

Violence far lower at Macquarie Prison where serious offenders enjoy more freedoms

A new experimental prison in New South Wales where maximum security inmates work 15-hour days and don't live in cells is recording record low rates of assault on staff and other prisoners.

At Macquarie Correctional Centre, in Wellington in central western NSW, inmates convicted of murder, rape and terrorism sleep in dormitory-style 'pods', take part in art classes and get paid to design and weld furniture.

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