Many of the correctional facilities in my part of the world own land that is much larger than the area enclosed in their walls. Sometimes it's simply open space used as a buffer zone. Sometimes it's operated as a 'prison farm'. Sometimes it's simply inhospitable woodland that it was too much work to clear.
If I have the cadastral information for the lands (which are usually posted to forbid entry, so visible "in the field"), what's a recommended way to tag? What I'm thinking is to put amenity=prison on the whole area and then barrier=wall or barrier=fence on the enclosure. I see, though, that other mappers have simply put "amenity=prison" on the wall and not mapped the outlying fields. That may, however, come from armchair mapping from orbit - it's hard to distinguish the prison farm from the next farm over. What's right?
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