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A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts work — legally or illegally — on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining.
Prison officials selected prisoners they deemed trustworthy and made them into armed guards; the prisoners were named "trustee guards" and "trustee shooters". Most male inmates did farm labor; others worked in the brickyard, cotton gin, prison hospital, and sawmill. [8] Women worked in the sewing room, making clothes, bed sheets, and mattresses.
Sharing photos from inside 201 Poplar, Ben Crump said conditions are "deplorable" and show a widespread "pattern of neglect" in the Shelby County Jail.
The ill were sent to the Federal Narcotics Farm at Lexington, and women prisoners were transferred to the old prison school building (until a new facility was constructed the following year in neighboring Shelby County, Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women). When the camp was completed, the men were transported back. [55] [56] [57]
Destiny Worley, an inmate within the Shelby County Division of Corrections, smiles as she holds the leash for Crab Rangoon, “Crabbie” for short, a dog she trained within the prison, during a ...
In Alabama, where prisoners are leased out by companies, AP reporters followed inmate transport vans to poultry plants run by Tyson Foods, which owns brands such as Hillshire Farms, Jimmy Dean and ...
The 2,620-acre site was previously known as the Wayside Honor Rancho, Castaic Honor Farm, or the Wayside Jail (by which it is still sometimes known) and was nicknamed the Wayside Drunk Farm in the 1940s because of the large proportion of inmates serving time for alcohol-related offenses—when first built for prison use in 1938 it was a minimum ...
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