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Definition of Prison farm
1. Noun. A camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prison Farm
Literary usage of Prison farm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1914)
"Arkansas has bought a prison farm of 8.000 repairing a publie road Trenton, and
contract labor and a southern county. The first report ja proposition for a ..."
2. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"—Arkansas has bought a prison farm of 8000 acres, and contract labor and leasing of
... A prison farm to employ 300 convicts has been begun in Illinois. ..."
3. Correction and Prevention by Eugene Smith, Hastings Hornell Hart (1910)
"The second and third class prisoners are placed on the prison farm, while the
fourth class, consisting of invalids and cripples, are not required to work. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"The establishment of the prison farm at Milledgeville was brought about for ...
At the prison farm are 261 convicts, of whom 157 are men, 85 are women, ..."
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