Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK und.) Dartmoor prison [its rural site].

1935

Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 7: On the farm: At Dartmoor Prison.

2. (Aus.) Monash University, Melbourne [Monash, which opened in 1961 with 363 students, was orig. set on a rural campus where cows still grazed and wildlife was a common sight].

1964

Sydney Morning Herald 28 Aug. 2: Third University for Melbourne. La Trobe joins ‘the Shop’ and ‘the Farm’ [GAW4].

3. (US prison) Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka, Angola.

2021

T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 47: No one escaped the Farm for long [...] Angola’s the nipple on a big round tit of land hugged by the Big Muddy.