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Secondary schools serving the Angola grounds are West Feliciana Middle School and West Feliciana High School in Bains. [89] The West Feliciana Parish Library is located in St. Francisville. [90] The library, previously a part of the Audubon Regional Library System, became independent in January 2004. [91]
The former execution chamber; the electric chair is a replica of the original (Gruesome Gertie). The Red Hat Cell Block is a former prison housing unit of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana which, for a time, also contained the state's execution chamber and electric chair.
The parish seat is St. Francisville. [2] The parish was established in 1824. [3] In 1824 Feliciana Parish was divided into East Feliciana Parish and West Feliciana Parish, in recognition of the increases in population throughout the parish. West Feliciana Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents.
Locust Grove State Historic Site, located near St. Francisville, Louisiana, commemorates a family cemetery that is part of the former Locust Grove Plantation.Locust Grove Plantation was once owned by the family of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis' sister Anna E. Davis Smith.
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison cemetery for deceased prisoners who are not reclaimed by their families The original Point Lookout Cemetery, one of the prison cemeteries on the property of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Louisiana State Penitentiary, the prison which Cain managed. Nathan Burl Cain (born July 2, 1942) [1] is an American corrections officer and prison warden who currently serves as the commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections [2] and the former warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Dixon, which opened in 1976, was the first medium security prison in Louisiana. [1] 7.5% of Dixon's beds are classified as "maximum security."[3]Burl Cain served as the warden of DCI until he was named in the same position at Angola.