Offenders have spent more than 800 hours of community service work maintaining rest areas across the Albury region through the Changing Outlooks Program.
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The initiative is a partnership between Corrective Services NSW and Roads and Maritime Services.
In Albury, the program began in mid-2018 and focused on the Borella VC, Four Mile Creek, Mullengandra and Blue Metal Hill rest areas.
On average 10 participants and a field officer worked at each site two days per month.
Between June and December last year, participants racked up 835 hours in Albury, and 239 hours in Wagga.
RMS south west director Lindsay Tanner said the program would now be expanded.
“We recognise that keeping rest areas in clean and neat conditions is important,” he said.
“Due to the success of the Changing Outlooks Program in Wagga Wagga and Albury, we are exploring opportunities to expand this program to Griffith this year.”
The figures were released on Friday as part of the second annual National Corrections Day.
Across the border, Justice and Community Safety Department Hume Regional Director Rob Francis also thanked staff working in his region.
“Our staff are actively involved in partnerships with community and other government organisations, to provide prisoners and offenders with opportunities for reparation through a range of programs that directly benefit the local community,” he said.
There are approximately 310 corrections staff in the Hume region, which includes Dhurringile Prison and Beechworth Correctional Centre, and community correctional services in Seymour, Shepparton, Wangaratta and Wodonga.
