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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]
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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.
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 ...
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections referred questions to the governor’s office. The Office of Juvenile Justice responded to questions by sending a link to the governor’s ...
Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when ...
The state's facilities do not have the capacity to house all offenders sentenced under state law, so the state reimburses local governments housing prisoners with state sentences. [18] Since its inception, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections has lost 12 officers in line-of-duty deaths, the latter two due to COVID-19 .
It effectively pauses the initial ruling, issued last week by U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in Baton Rouge, to transfer the youths from their temporary incarceration at the Louisiana State ...