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The USGS topographic map of Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1994. 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 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 the larger Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. [3] Since 2010, male inmates from all parishes enter the DOC system through the Hunt Reception and Diagnostic Center (HRDC) at Hunt.
After a 1933 escape attempt, prison authorities constructed a new prisoner cell block, [2] a one-story, 30-cell building at Camp E. [3] That cell block, which became the most restrictive inmate housing unit in Angola, was colloquially referred to as "Red Hat", [4] after the red paint-coated straw hats that its occupants wore when they worked in ...
Juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison in Louisiana will be moved to a youth detention facility by late fall, officials said Friday. Currently 15 ...
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]
The Angola Prison Rodeo, known as The Wildest Show in the South, began in 1965 and is the oldest event of its kind in America. ... Tickets can also be bought by phone at from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m ...
Avoyelles and Angola were the two state prisons planned to receive most of these prisoners. [3] In 2011 there was a plan to sell Avoyelles to a private company. The bill failed while in a committee of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 2012 House Bill 850, which called for the state to look for proposals in privatizing the prison, was ...
Angola’s 18,000 acres make it one of the largest prison campuses in the world. It has enough space between buildings that the teens can be held far from adult prisoners, but advocates and ...