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Richmond Farm Correctional Centre

Coordinates: 18°13′59″N 76°53′12″W / 18.2330606°N 76.8866372°W / 18.2330606; -76.8866372
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Richmond Farm Correctional Centre
Richmond Farm Correctional Centre is located in Jamaica
Richmond Farm Correctional Centre
Richmond Farm Correctional Centre
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LocationRichmond, St Mary, Jamaica
Coordinates18°13′59″N 76°53′12″W / 18.2330606°N 76.8866372°W / 18.2330606; -76.8866372
StatusOperational
Security classMedium security
Capacity235
Managed byOperated by the Department of Correctional Services for the Ministry of National Security

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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