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Winn Correctional Center (private) Other Facilities Occupied With DOC Nelson Coleman Correction Center; Plaquemines Parish Detention Center; Former facilities: C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center (Closed 2012) [2] Forcht-Wade Correctional Center (closed July 2012) [3] J. Levy Dabadie Correctional Center (closed July 2012) [4] Steve Hoyle ...
Since 1970, The grounds of Fort Jackson have been the site of both the Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival. [15] The fort was used to treat oily birds in the early weeks of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The treatment facility was moved on July 4, 2010, to Hammond, Louisiana, in order to make it less vulnerable to hurricanes. [16]
Plaquemines Parish (/ ˈ p l æ k ɪ m ɪ n z / PLAK-im-inz; French: Paroisse de Plaquemine; Louisiana French: Paroisse des Plaquemines; Spanish: Parroquia de Plaquemines) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 23,515 at the 2020 census, [1] the parish seat is Pointe à la Hache and the largest community is ...
Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest correctional facility in the United States by population. [121] In 2010, the prison had 5,100 inmates and 1,700 employees. [ 122 ] In 2010, the racial composition of the inmates was 76% black and 24% white. 71% of inmates were serving a life sentence. 1.6% had been sentenced to death. [ 123 ]
The second parish courthouse (c. 1906) on Railroad Avenue has been serving as City Hall since 1985. Plaquemine did not have a hospital until 1923. [9] Plaquemine has been a Louisiana-designated Main Street City since 1993. [10] There are ten properties listed for Plaquemine on the National Register of Historic Places in Iberville Parish, Louisiana.
Port Sulphur is a unincorporated community on the West Bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined the community as a census-designated place (CDP) which at the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,677.
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]
C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center (PCC) was a Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections prison for men, located in unincorporated Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, [1] about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of DeQuincy and 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Lake Charles. The center was located on Louisiana Highway 27. [2]