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It's not your average bakery that saves taxpayers $180,000 a year and changes the lives of inmates along the way, but the bakery at Wellington Correctional Centre is an example of the Department of Corrective Services' push to be more self-sufficient.
At the end of this financial year state prisons will have saved $6 million through ventures such as cattle and dairy farming, orchards and vegetable growing, with all produce going back into the prison system.
For 53-year-old inmate Ken, working in the bakery has been the opportunity of a lifetime.
"It means a lot," he said.
"You're not sitting in your cell with nothing to do, because that's the hardest thing for anybody in prison. Working hard, time goes quickly."
Ken is now doing a Certificate III in food processing as well as a traineeship and looks forward to pursuing a career in the industry when he is released.
Officer-in-charge and baker John Gowans said the bakery was extremely busy, but very rewarding for the inmates.
"A lot of them have only ever been put down, but you give them a bit of praise and see what they can do," he said.
The job involved 6am starts and the normal working day helped prepare inmates for integration back into society, acting general manager of Wellington Correctional Centre Scott Brideoake said.
"Since our inception the bakery has been an integral part of the employment of our inmates," he said.
"It's a real success story, it increases self-esteem and is an opportunity to make money. It's also a good trade when they integrate back into the community and they've got their certificates. We tend to be getting more and more things we can be self-sufficient in."