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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.
This is a list of adult state prisons in Louisiana. It does not include federal prisons or parish jails located in the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections directly operates all except two. Allen Correctional Center; Avoyelles Correctional Center - As of 2012, the state planned to privatize Avoyelles [1]
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.
Louisiana State Penitentiary entrance. West Feliciana Parish (French: Paroisse de Feliciana Ouest; Spanish: Parroquia de Feliciana Occidental) is a civil parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,310. [1] The parish seat is St. Francisville. [2] The parish was established in 1824. [3]
Louisiana State Penitentiary is the location of the State of Louisiana's male death row and execution chamber. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Louisiana since 2010, and no involuntary executions since 2002.
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at ...
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.
A teenage girl was reportedly raped by an inmate at a Louisiana state prison while attending the controversial Angola Prison Rodeo. According to WBRZ, the inmate was seen leaving a bathroom with a ...