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Prison inmates in South Otago skill up on dairy farm
3 Mar, 2021 11:45 PM
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An Otago Corrections Facility inmate milks cows in Milburn. Photo / Shawn McAvinue
Otago Daily Times
By: Shawn McAvinue
Outside the wire of a South Otago prison, inmates work on a dairy farm in hope of a brighter future.
Otago Corrections Facility principal instructor and farm manager Tony Russell said Department of Corrections bought a dairy farm in Milburn and plonked a prison in the middle of it .
The prison - on about 40ha of land, about 6km north of Milton, - opened in 2007.
About 135ha remained to operate the dairy farm and run about 350 kiwicross cows.
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