Hi, I just want to send congratulations on your first issue reaching my prison. I may be a rare beast, a prisoner who is enjoying his time in prison. This is due to my work as editor of our prison quarterly newsletter and running computer-aided design (CAD) workshops for prisoners.

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As editor, I try to educate and highlight the positive to prisoners. With my CAD workshops I am trying to give an alternative to traditional skills programs provided.

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I would be very interested if any other state provides similar workshops as the curriculum has been developed to be self-paced, with tutorials and course notes.

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The attached short story is an extension of a match report I wrote for the newsletter covering our inter-prison footy match against Wooroloo Prison. (Readers, please see the story in the Creative section of this paper!)

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Regards,

Russell