Richmond Farm Correctional Centre
Richmond Farm Prison is a prison in Jamaica that houses up to 235 first offenders serving long-term sentences.[1] It once incorporated a large banana farm, which was later destroyed. As of 2006, an attempt was under way to regenerate the farm with crops including bananas, corn, calaloo, string beans and cucumber.[2]
Its most famous former ex inmate was Bunny Wailer who spent 14 months there in 1967/8.[3] Other sources indicate Toots Hibbert served a year of an 18-month sentence there in 1966–7.
It is operated by the Department of Correctional Services for the Ministry of National Security.
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- Fort Augusta
- Saint Catherine (Spanish Town Prison)
- South Camp (Gun Court Prison)
- Tower Street (The General Penitentiary)
- Richmond Farm
- Tamarind Farm
- New Broughton Sunset Correctional Centre (Old Man's Prison)
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