AU: Prisoners grow and sell bok choy from jail
Working with local lettuce producer and distributor Moe McCosker, the prisoners are able to harvest and sell up to 800 bunches of product each week.
A day at the prison bok choy farm
At the Alice Springs jail, prisoners are summonsed to the gate via a message over the public address system to be "ready for work".
"We are at the low security cottage complex," said the jail's horticulture industry officer Jared Ewin.
"We are about to collect the prisoners that work for me in horticulture and there should be about 12 of 15 of them."
Mr Ewin confirmed that nobody had ever tried to escape from the bok choy plantation.
As he headed off to the crop, Mr Ewin addressed the jailed workers and said, "don't muck around, we don't have much time".
At the green and perfectly aligned rows of bok choy, an inmate told ABC Rural he was locked up for breaching a domestic violence order.
He said the skills he was attaining while working on the bok choy crop could help him get a job when he gets out in a week's time.