__NOTOC__ Richmond Farm Prison is a prison in Jamaica that houses up to 235 first offenders serving long-term sentences., Department Of Correctional Services, 2007. 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.COSPROD Preparing Inmates to Lead Productive Lives, Ingrid Brown, JIS, 2006-01-23.

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

See also

List of prisons in Jamaica

External links Aerial view. Photos:

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