prison farm


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Noun1.prison farm - a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects
camp - a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners"
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When McMurphy is transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment.
Robert Mitchum did time at a Californian prison farm for smoking marijuana - the conviction was later overturned.
Government will consider to help Boro Prison farm with resources and capacitate officers to realise optimum produce.
Kisang was locked up at Eldoret prison on March 2, 2016, for allegedly aiding prisoner Paul Wanyama Silali to escape from Ngeria Prison Farm. But Eldoret senior resident magistrate Douglas Moseti found him innocent and freed him on March 21, 2019.
It pushes Bonnie and Clyde to the background except for a brief scene at the start, when we see her help him to escape from Eastham Prison Farm in 1934.
The book can be described as a fascinating catalogue of the rise and ultimate demise of entrepreneurial vision in Manitoba (the Emerson fox farm, for example), or as a roster of government initiatives which have run their course and been largely forgotten (such as the East Braintree prison farm); or as a record of transportation innovation from York boats to Red River carts to railways (encompassed by the chapter on the Fort Ellice Trail).
Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men.
And Sheriff Norris is forced to reopen a mystery that the town thought was solved and follow a string of clues that lead to a deadly situation at the nearby prison farm.
When she falls in love with her best friend, Dara runs from her hometown and everything she knows to work as a kitchen girl at the Imperial State Prison Farm in Sugar Land, Texas.
Nearly half the high-level positions at Cummins and Arkansas' other prison farm were filled by Texans who had their own methods of forcing inmates to work.
That means taking a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm, where she can avoid temptation.