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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.
In 1989 Frank Polozola, the U.S. district judge in the state, approved a plan for the state to send over 600 state prisoners who were incarcerated in parish jails to state prisons. Avoyelles and Angola were the two state prisons planned to receive most of these prisoners. [3] In 2011 there was a plan to sell Avoyelles to a private company.
This week, an inmate broke a Caddo Parish Jail officer's jaw, an animation company announces jobs for Shreveport, and winter weather causes closures. The 318: Officer jaw broken after Caddo Jail ...
David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC) is a Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections prison located in an unincorporated area of Claiborne Parish, [1] between Homer and Haynesville, Louisiana. [2] [3] The prison is located near the Louisiana-Arkansas border. [4]
The two captured inmates, Avery Guidry, 19, and Travon Johnson, 21, were found hiding in the dumpster Monday morning, the sheriff’s office reported. They were unarmed when found, Travis said.
In 1995 the state received federal approval for its plan to double-bunk inmates. That way the state could transfer state-sentenced female prisoners who were held in parish jails to the women's prison. [6] The television special 900 Women: Inside St. Gabriel's Prison is about the women inside the facility. [7]
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.
By 1999 Caddo Parish donated the former Caddo Parish Detention Center to Louisiana. The State of Louisiana implemented a $6 million renovation program so the facility could become a facility for the chronically ill and geriatric and house around 600 prisoners. [5] By 2002 the Legislature of Louisiana added a boot camp program to the prison. [4]