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List Of Louisiana State Prisons
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 * B. B. Rayburn Correctional Center * David Wade Correctional Center * Dixon Correctional Institute * Elayn Hunt Correctional Center * Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women * Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison * Winn Correctional Center (private) Other Facilities Occupied With DOC * Nelson Coleman Correction Center * Plaquemines Parish Detention Center Former facilities: * C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center (Closed 2012)Weston, Elona.State's decision to close Phelps a surprise to local, state officials" ''KPLC''. September 14, 2012. Updated October 14, 2012. Retrieved on October 25, 2012. * Forcht-Wade Correctional ...
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Avoyelles Correctional Center
Raymond Laborde Correctional Center (RLCC), formerly Avoyelles Correctional Center (ACC), is a state prison of Louisiana, operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is located in unincorporated Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, near Cottonport and about south of Alexandria. History In 1989 Frank Polozola, the U.S. district judge in the state, approved a plan for the state to send over 600 state prisoners who were incarcerated in parish jails to state prisons. Avoyelles and Angola were the two state prisons planned to receive most of these prisoners. 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 launched. The budget under Governor Bobby Jindal called for closing J. Levy Dabadie Correctional Center, having its prisoners go to Avoyelles, and then sell Avoyell ...
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Prisons In Louisiana
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, English language in England, standard English, Australian English, Australian, and Huron Historic Gaol, historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow or remand center, is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the State (polity), state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be Remand (detention), imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found Guilt (law), guilty of crimes at trial may be Sentence (law), sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have com ...
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Forcht-Wade Correctional Center
Forcht-Wade Correctional Center was a state prison facility in unincorporated Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The prison, operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections, was located in the Eddie D. Jones Nature Park in Keithville. The prison also controlled the Dr. Martin Forcht Jr. Clinical Treatment Unit, a facility located near Spring Ridge. History The Caddo Parish commission donated the site of Forcht-Wade to the State of Louisiana in 1977. The donation included some structures that existed on the site. The contract involved in the handover states that if the state does not use the facility within a two-year period, the Parish will receive the land back. Forcht-Wade was originally a full prison,Staggs, Sean.Forcht Wade Correctional Center to close this summer" ''KSLA-TV''. February 9, 2012. Retrieved on October 25, 2012. and it served as a division of the David Wade Correctional Center.
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KPLC
KPLC (channel 7) is a television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television, which provides certain services to dual Fox/ABC affiliate KVHP (channel 29) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with American Spirit Media. Both stations share studios on Division Street in downtown Lake Charles, while KPLC's transmitter is located near Fenton, Louisiana. History KPLC-TV signed on September 29, 1954 with NBC's airing of the 1954 World Series. Owner T. B. Lanford of Shreveport had previously signed on KPLC radio (1470 AM, now KLCL, and 99.5 FM, now KNGT) and was eager to expand into television, giving the new station the same callsign as their radio sisters. On the same day, Lanford helped sign on then- and current sister station KALB-TV in Alexandria. KPLC was a major beneficiary of a quirk in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s plan for allocating stations. In the early days of broadcast telev ...
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Plaquemines Parish Detention Center
Plaquemines Parish (; French: ''Paroisse de Plaquemine'', Louisiana French: ''Paroisse des Plaquemines'', es, Parroquia de Caquis) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 23,515 at the 2020 census, the parish seat is Pointe à la Hache and the largest community is Belle Chasse. The parish was formed in 1807. Plaquemines Parish is part of the New Orleans– Metairie metropolitan statistical area. It was severely damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, and in hurricane events in 2011 and 2021. History The name ''"Plaquemines,"'' in French Creole, was derived from the Atakapa word, ''piakimin'', meaning the local fruit persimmon. The French used it to name a military post they built on the banks of the Mississippi River, as the site was surrounded by numerous persimmon trees. Eventually the name was applied to the entire parish and to a nearby bayou. The oldest European settlement in the parish was La Balize, wher ...
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Nelson Coleman Correction Center
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Winn Correctional Center
Winn Correctional Center (WCC) is a state prison for men, part of the Louisiana Department of Corrections prison system, located about Bauer, Shane.My four months as a private prison guard. ''Mother Jones''. July/August 2016. Retrieved on June 27, 2016. " .. pull into Winnfield, a hardscrabble town ..hirteen miles away, Winn Correctional Center .. southeast of Winnfield in unincorporated Winn Parish, Louisiana. It is within the Kisatchie National Forest. As of February 2014, Winn is one of several privately operated prisons in the state. The facility is medium-security and currently has the capacity to house 1,538 inmates. Opened in 1990, it was expanded in 1992. Winn opened as the first privately managed medium-security prison in the United States. Management of the state-owned facility passed from Corrections Corporation of America to LaSalle Corrections in mid-2015. Aged * Adult 18+ Demographics 75% of the inmates are black, and 25% of the prisoners are white or of othe ...
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KSLA-TV
KSLA (channel 12) is a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate KTSH-CD (channel 19). The two stations share studios on Fairfield Avenue and Dashiel Street (southeast of I-20) in central Shreveport; KSLA's transmitter is located near St. Johns Baptist Church Road (southeast of Mooringsport and Caddo Lake) in rural northern Caddo Parish. History Early history The VHF channel 12 allocation was contested between three groups that competed for approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be granted a construction permit on one of Shreveport's two television channels. On June 27, 1952, one week before the FCC released a Report and Order reallocation memorandum that lifted a four-year moratorium on new television broadcast license applications, two Shreveport-based groups filed respective applications for the permit: Radio Station KRMD Inc. (then-pa ...
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Allen Correctional Center
:''not to be confused with the Allen Correctional Institution, Lima, Ohio'' Allen Correctional Center is a state prison in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections The Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) (French: ) is a state law enforcement agency responsible for the incarceration of inmates and management of facilities at state prisons within the state of Louisiana. The agency is headquart .... The Louisiana Department of Corrections built the prison, which opened in December 1990, for $27 million. References 1990 establishments in Louisiana Allen Parish, Louisiana GEO Group {{US-prison-stub ...
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David Wade Correctional Center
David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC) is a Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections prison located in an unincorporated area of Claiborne Parish, between Homer and Haynesville, Louisiana. The prison is located near the Louisiana-Arkansas border.Johnson, Allen Jr.Shared Fate" ''Gambit Weekly''. March 20, 2001. Retrieved on October 2, 2010. The N-5 Special Management Unit, which as of 2001 holds some 50 prisoners, is a special protection unit for prisoners at risk. The unit houses former prison officials, convicted ex-police officers from New Orleans, contract killers, pedophiles, and young people with life sentences. Wade opened in 1980. Thirty-nine percent of the beds at Wade are "maximum custody." As is typical of prisons in rural areas, many of the correctional officers who work at Wade are from the local Haynesville-Homer area. History According to police, in July 2017 a prisoner kidnapped the daughter of the warden, and the kidnapping resulted in her death. The ...
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Louisiana Department Of Public Safety & Corrections
The Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) (French: ) is a state law enforcement agency responsible for the incarceration of inmates and management of facilities at state prisons within the state of Louisiana. The agency is headquartered in Baton Rouge. The agency comprises two major areas: Public Safety Services and Corrections Services. The secretary, who is appointed by the governor of Louisiana, serves as the department's chief executive officer. The Corrections Services deputy secretary, undersecretary, and assistant secretaries for the Office of Adult Services and the Office of Youth Development report directly to the secretary. Headquarters administration consists of centralized divisions that support the management and operations of the adult and juvenile institutions, adult and juvenile probation and parole district offices, and all other services provided by the department. Agency overview The three major divisions (Corrections Services, Office of Juvenile ...
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