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Winn Correctional Center (WCC) is a state prison for men, part of the Louisiana Department of Corrections prison system, located about 13 miles (21 km) [1] southwest of Winnfield in unincorporated Winn Parish, Louisiana. [2] It is within the Kisatchie National Forest. [1] As of February 2014, Winn is one of several privately operated prisons in ...
B. B. Rayburn Correctional Center. David Wade Correctional Center. Dixon Correctional Institute. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center. Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women. Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. Winn Correctional Center (private) Other Facilities Occupied With DOC.
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment is a 2018 book by Shane Bauer, published by Penguin Press, about incarceration in the United States and the usage of private prisons. Bauer had worked at the Winn Correctional Center in Winn Parish, Louisiana, then operated by Corrections Corporation of America ...
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, [1][2] is a multi-security- level Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections institution for adult men. 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 ...
318. Congressional district. 5th. Winn Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,755. [1] The parish seat and largest city is Winnfield. [2] The parish was founded in 1852. [3] It is last in alphabetical order of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes.
In 1990, CCA opened the first medium-security privately operated prison, the state-owned Winn Correctional Center, in Winn Parish, Louisiana. [16] It opened the Leavenworth Detention Center, operated for the U.S. Marshals Service, in 1992. This 256-bed facility was the first maximum-security private prison under direct contract to a federal ...
The Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) (French: Département de la sécurité publique et des services correctionnels de Louisiane) is a state law enforcement agency responsible for the incarceration of inmates and management of facilities at state prisons within the state of Louisiana.
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. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory.