Hospitals in Louisiana - Louisiana State Penitentiary, Wilbert Rideau, Billy Sinclair, Charity Hospital (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Louisiana State Penitentiary, Wilbert Rideau, Billy Sinclair, Charity Hospital, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, List of hospitals in Louisiana, Robert Hillary King, Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, Red Hat Cell Block, Angola Three, Lindy Boggs Medical Center, Tulane Medical Center, University Hospital, New Orleans, West Jefferson Medical Center, Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, Baton Rouge General Medical Center- Bluebonnet Campus, Ochsner Medical Center, Touro Infirmary, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, Ochsner Health System, Lakeview Regional Medical Center, East Jefferson General Hospital, Tulane-Lakeside Hospital, Earl K. Long Medical Center, Baton Rouge General Medical Center - Mid-City Campus, Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner, Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank, St. Elizabeth Hospital. Excerpt: The Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm") is a prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. The prison is the largest maximum security prison in the United States with 5,000 inmates and 1,800 staff members. It is located on an 18,000 acre (73 km ) property that was previously the Angola and other plantations owned by Isaac Franklin in unincorporated West Feliciana Parish, close to the Mississippi border. The prison is located at the terminus of Louisiana Highway 66, and the prison is about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of St. Francisville. Angola is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. As of 2010 Burl Cain is the warden. The prison houses the State of Louisiana's death row for men and the state execution chamber. Old Camp ABefore 1835, state inmates lived in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, lo...