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An inmate is dead following a medical emergency while incarcerated at Bossier Maximum-Security Facility in Bossier Parish. Monday morning, Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington released that on March ...
Dooley was elected sheriff in a special election in 1976 to fill the remainder of the preceding term, [1] [5] and was reelected in 1979 and 1983. [6] In 1984, Dooley and six of his deputies were found liable for injuries incurred by prison inmate Jessie Lee Smith while being transported from the Bossier Parish Jail in Benton to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.
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]
Benton is a town in, and the parish seat of, Bossier Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 2,048 in 2020. [ 2 ] The town is named for 19th century U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton , a Democrat from Missouri and an ally of U.S. President Andrew Jackson .
According to the sheriff's office, despite ongoing growth Bossier Parish remains committed to reducing overall crime in 2024. More: Half of Louisiana residents experience physical violence: New ...
According to Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office, a land surveyor found the body entangled in the brush near a railroad trestle. The body appeared to be a black male in his late 20s or early 30s.
Bossier Parish is named for Pierre Bossier, [6] an ethnic French, 19th-century Louisiana state senator and U.S. representative from Natchitoches Parish. Bossier Parish was spared fighting on its soil during the American Civil War. In July 1861, at the start of the war, the Bossier Parish Police Jury appropriated $35,000 for the benefit of ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents.