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Richmond Farm Correctional Centre
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| Location | Richmond, St Mary, Jamaica |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Medimum security |
| Capacity | 235 |
| 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.[1] 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.[2]
Its most famous former ex inmate is probably Bunny Wailer who spent 14 months there in 1967/8.[3]
It is operated by the Department of Correctional Services for the Ministry of National Security.
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