work farm

noun

: a farm on which persons guilty of minor law violations are confined

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The relative emailed one of the reporters, who found that Moran was also among hundreds of unclaimed bodies buried at the county jail’s work farm. —

Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024 Poverty Hollow was a debtors’ work farm and is now, because time has a sense of humor, the site of some of the town’s most McMansion-y developments. —

Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024 On March 31, the coroner’s office asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors for permission to bury Moran in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail’s work farm, records show. —

Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024 After going unclaimed for months, those bodies were buried in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail work farm, their graves marked only by a number. —

Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2024 The unclaimed dead of Hinds County, Mississippi, are buried along a dirt road on the grounds of a jail work farm, their graves marked with just a metal rod and a number. —

Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2016 But two of Emmett’s friends from the work farm, Duchess and Woolly, join them and force Emmett and Billy east to New York. —

Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 June 2022 Emmett Watson, 18, has just returned to Nebraska from 15 months at a juvenile work farm in Kansas. —

Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021 Margaret, Waley’s wife, landed at a Michigan work farm. —

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