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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.
St. Bernard Parish is also home to the earliest Filipino community in the United States, Saint Malo, Louisiana. The chief historical attraction in St. Bernard Parish is the Chalmette Battlefield (part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve), at which the Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815, during the War of 1812.
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.
Before 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft × 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft (1.8 m × 1.1 m). [10]
Geoghan was assigned to St. Bernard's Parish in Concord starting on September 22, 1966. He was transferred after seven months there; church records offered no explanation for his reassignment. [3] On April 20, 1967, Geoghan was assigned to St. Paul's Parish in Hingham. Around 1968, a man complained to church authorities that he had caught ...
A lawsuit details alleged assaults, dating from the 1970s through 2018, that spanned a wide swath of L.A. County's once vast and now mostly shuttered juvenile hall system.
June 22, 2009, 29-year-old inmate Alberto Gallegos-Velazquez violently assaulted another inmate in the recreational yard at FCI Oakdale. The victim inmate, who the Bureau of Prisons did not identify, suffered a fractured skull and an intracranial hemorrhage which resulted in long-term disabilities including seizures, loss of speech, and an inability to move his right extremities.
Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was serving a 25-year sentence at FCC Oakdale for his involvement in the accounting scandal that toppled that company, but was released in 2019. [2] Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards served over eight years of a ten-year sentence for his involvement in a 2000 riverboat gambling racketeering case.