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The USGS topographic map of Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1994. The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm" [8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections.
The transfer of youths to Angola was supposed to have been a short-term fix, with a goal of moving youths from Angola to a new secure facility in Monroe by spring 2023. However, the timeline has ...
Juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison in Louisiana will be moved to a youth detention facility by late fall, officials said Friday. Currently 15 ...
Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison; Winn Correctional Center (private) Other Facilities Occupied With DOC Nelson Coleman Correction Center; Plaquemines Parish Detention Center; Former facilities: C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center (Closed 2012) [2] Forcht-Wade Correctional Center (closed July 2012) [3]
Angola’s 18,000 acres make it one of the largest prison campuses in the world. It has enough space between buildings that the teens can be held far from adult prisoners, but advocates and ...
It is the second-largest prison in Louisiana and is located about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans. Elayn Hunt has about half the number of prisoners held at the larger Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. [3] Since 2010, male inmates from all parishes enter the DOC system through the Hunt Reception and Diagnostic Center (HRDC) at Hunt.
Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when ...
1,000 Phelps prisoners were transferred to the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) in West Feliciana Parish. The state government did not increase Angola's budget, nor did it hire additional employees. [6] In 2015 the Beauregard Parish Sherriff Office Leased the Facility, [citation needed] still owned by the state government, [7] to a Private ...