prison farms
Inmate-worked plantations
Prison farms are correctional facilities where inmates work agricultural land, raising crops or livestock.
Once common in the American South, they combined punishment with productive labor—sometimes brutally.
The term also applies to modern minimum-security facilities with farming programs: He served the last two years of his sentence at a prison farm in upstate New York.
- work campFacility for compulsory labor
- convict leasingHiring out imprisoned people
- inmateConfined facility resident
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
- chain gangsFettered convicts performing labor
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Highest-level detention facility
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