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Richmond Farm Correctional Centre

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Status
  
Operational

Capacity
  
235

Security class
  
Medium security

Richmond Farm Correctional Centre

Location
  
Richmond, St Mary, Jamaica

Managed by
  
Operated by the Department of Correctional Services for the Ministry of National Security

Richmond Farm Prison houses up to 235 first offenders serving long-term sentences. It once incorporated a large banana farm, which was later destroyed. As of 2006, an attempt was under way regenerate the farm with crops including bananas, corn, calaloo, string beans and cucumber.

Its most famous former ex inmate was Bunny Wailer who spent 14 months there in 1967/8. 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.

References

Richmond Farm Correctional Centre Wikipedia