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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 agency is headquartered in Baton ...
St. Tammany: Faith Hathaway 7 David Dene Martin: White 32 M January 4, 1985 Terrebonne: 4 murder victims [b] 8 Benjamin A. Berry: White 31 M June 7, 1987 Jefferson: Jefferson Parish Deputy Sheriff Robert Cochran [2] 9 Alvin Rudolph Moore Jr. Black 27 M June 9, 1987 Bossier: Jo Ann Wilson 10 Jimmy L. Glass: White 25 M June 12, 1987 Webster: Newt ...
Five days later, coroner Roderick Perron released a report that indicated that Smith had died in Evangeline Parish as originally indicated by Malveaux, allowing proceedings to continue as normal. [15] Around this time, several articles came out that proclaimed that Malveaux was the first recorded serial killer in St. Landry Parish's history. [16]
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, whose top priority is addressing crime, appointed a new prisons chief to oversee America's most incarcerated population.
Troop K included Avoyelles, Evangeline, Pointe Coupee, and St. Landry Parishes. It was disbanded in 1988 due to budget considerations. Troop M (Des Allemands) closed in 1973 when merged into the current Troop C. It comprised Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption, the West banks of St. Charles, St. John, and St. James Parishes. [14]
Capital punishment is applied in Louisiana. Executions are carried out by lethal injection at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola) and the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women at St. Gabriel. [12] The first recorded execution in Louisiana occurred on September 24, 1722, when an unnamed man was hanged for theft. [13]
The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office received a call from the mother Nov. 5, who said her son was kidnapped near a highway in Eunice − a city about 80 miles from Baton Rouge.
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.