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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. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory.
Corrections Services (referred to as the Department of Corrections) is responsible for the custody of adult inmates across Louisiana. As of 2011, about 19,000 of Louisiana's 37,000 prisoners are assigned to the state's 13 correctional facilities. The remaining incarcerated prisoners are assigned to parish facilities.
The Angola Three are three African American former prison inmates (Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace) who were held for decades in solitary confinement while imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison). The latter two were indicted in April 1972 for the killing of a prison corrections officer ...
Orleans Parish Prison is the city jail for New Orleans, Louisiana. First opened in 1837, it is operated by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office . Most of the prisoners—1,300 of the 1,500 or so as of June 2016—are awaiting trial.
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. It is the second-largest prison in Louisiana and is located about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans. Elayn Hunt has about half the number of prisoners held at ...
Winn Correctional Center (WCC) is a state prison for men, part of the Louisiana Department of Corrections prison system, located about 13 miles (21 km) [1] southwest of Winnfield in unincorporated Winn Parish, Louisiana. [2] It is within the Kisatchie National Forest. [1] As of February 2014, Winn is one of several privately operated prisons in ...
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]
Capacity. 1244. Opened. 1980; expanded 1987. Managed by. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. 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 ...