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From prison cells to Sikh gurdwara: how officer uses faith to help others   B-roll footage and interviews available:   Prison officer Gurpreet Singh believes in the power of faith and second chances – an outlook that has served him well during the almost 30 years he has spent helping inmates, his peers and Sydney’s Sikh community. Gurpreet is a classification officer at Newington House at the Silverwater Correctional Complex, deciding where inmates are placed and where they have the best chance at turning their lives around. “It is a long journey for inmates – we do a risk assessment, build a case plan and try to keep them at the lowest level of classification so they can get into the right programs,” the deputy superintendent says. “Classification and placement is very important – if you move an inmate from one location to another and they don’t have a program, ...