Activities for prisoners
A range of activities and opportunities are offered to prisoners while they are in custody. These can include:
- employment (such as bakery, laundry, kitchen, woodwork shop, tailor shop, farming, gardening, community work, cleaning)
- education (a range of educational opportunities are provided, including courses provided and delivered by the Tasmania Prison Service (TPS), TasTAFE, Libraries Tasmania and the University of Southern Queensland)
- programs (including targeted offence-related programs as well as other programs to assist prisoners)
- sport and recreation (including a range of individual and team-based activities and competitions)
- hobbies
- library (materials and information services provided by Libraries Tasmania).