What this report does not do This report does not deal with broader issues about the role and rationale of prison industries, except where these issues relate to corruption prevention.
Industries have an important role to play in the correctional system.
The aim of this exercise is to promote improvements in their administration, not to call their role into question. As the CJC s jurisdiction is limited to state-operated correctional facilities, this report does not attempt to present a comprehensive overview of prison industries in Queensland, or to assess the extent to which the issues canvassed in this report are relevant to privately operated prisons. Prison industries may be said to encompass any work performed by inmates of a correctional centre. However, this is too broad a definition for the purposes of this report. This definition excludes many activities defined as work within the Queensland correctional system for which prisoners receive remuneration and activities such as art, handicrafts and hobbies, the products of which are usually the property of the prisoners who made them.