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The Prison Enterprises Division (PE) helps to reduce the overall cost of prison operations and the operating costs of other state agencies, local government entities, and other tax-supported institutions primarily by operating self-supported industrial and agricultural businesses that employ inmates in meaningful jobs, teach them marketable ...
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]
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). [11]
Former New Orleans city councilman Oliver Thomas served a 37-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to accepting bribes, served the duration of his sentence at the Oakdale complex. [5] Patrick Jones, a 47-year old inmate at the prison in became the first fatality of COVID-19 in a federal prison on March 29, 2020. Five other inmates ...
Three years after agreeing the county needed to build a new jail, the board in 2018 approved a $2.2-billion plan to do that — by tearing down the existing facility and replacing it with a ...
ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
It is located on the eastern edge of Basile in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. The facility was opened in 1993 to serve state, federal and local uses by the private prison company LCS Corrections Services. [1] It was later acquired by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, renamed as The GEO Group, Inc. in 2004 [2] The facility has a capacity of 1,000.
In 2003 the Louisiana Legislature voted to turn the department's juvenile division into a cabinet level agency. [4] In 2004 the juvenile system separated from the adult system. [5] It was established as the Office of Youth Development (OYD), and it was given its current name by the Louisiana Legislature in 2008. [6]