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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The suit against ...
From 1901 until 1916, Corrections was operated by the Board of Control, a three-member panel appointed by the governor of Louisiana. One of the first actions taken by the new board was the purchase of the 8,000-acre (32 km 2) Angola Plantation. New camps were built and many new security officers were hired. [20]
Avoyelles (French: Paroisse des Avoyelles) is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census , the population was 39,693. [ 1 ]
For years, detainees say, harassment has been rampant at the jail in Orleans Parish, which has struggled since 2012 to comply with a consent decree by the Justice Department to monitor poor ...
Raymond Laborde Correctional Center (RLCC), formerly Avoyelles Correctional Center (ACC), is a state prison of Louisiana, operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is located in unincorporated Avoyelles Parish , Louisiana , [ 1 ] near Cottonport and about 30 miles (48 km) south of Alexandria .