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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.
Members of Jerome Stevenson's family and others pray at a Dec. 29 news conference about the 26-year-old's death while in custody at an Avoyelles Parish jail facility. An inmate and two ...
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] B. B. Rayburn Correctional Center; David Wade ...
People linger near the entrance to the Avoyelles Parish Jail on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, after a news conference about the Nov. 4 beating of inmate Jerome Demond Stevenson, who died in a hospital ...
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]
An Avoyelles Parish woman is in a Rapides Parish jail Thursday evening after allegedly forcing her way inside a home, firing a gun and later carjacking two drivers, according to police.
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.
The four inmates, all held in connection with violent crimes, escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail north of New Orleans, according to a Facebook post from Sheriff Daniel Edwards. Two were taken ...