prison farm Meaning of "prison farm"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects

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Usage(s):

  1. They took them by bus to a prison farm 25 miles away.
  2. Five years after he got out of the Texas jail on a pardon, he bounced into Louisiana's state prison farm for assault with intent to kill, and sweet Irene went right along with him.
  3. Recaptured after his second escape from Mississippi's prison farm at Parchman, lanky ex-Robber William Frank Moody became a model prisoner.
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