penal farm

penal farm
A correctional institution to which persons convicted of misdemeanors are sent, instead of to the county jail. Summers v State, 198 Ind 241, 243, 151 NE 615, 616. A farm maintained as a part of the correctional system of a state to which prisoners may be sent for rehabilitation by work, whether at agricultural pursuits or industrial plants maintained on the land.

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