The 33-year-old is learning how to use a sewing machine after being transferred from the maximum security Parklea prison to Cooma Correctional Centre on May 26.
A group of women with loved ones locked up in jail have have vowed to support Jarryd Hayne s pregnant wife - telling her you re now one of us .
The retired NRL star, 33, was on Friday jailed for at least three years and eight months after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman inside her home in Newcastle in September 2018.
Within minutes of him being led away from the packed courtroom, social media was alight with innuendo and jokes at his and his family s expense.
But the women of a Facebook group dedicated to offering support and help to the wives and family of prisoners placed a new blanket rule on members of the page - no nasty comments toward Hayne s wife, Amellia Bonnici.
Jarryd Lee Hayne, 33, was jailed for three years and eight months on Thursday
He was convicted a raping a 26-year-old woman at her Newcastle home in 2018
The NRL star has begun his sentence at Parklea prison in north-western Sydney
Hayne was strip searched on Thursday night and given a set of green clothing
Placed in protection at Parklea jail in Sydney s north-west amid safety fears