West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana - Louisiana State Penitentiary, Museums in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, People from West Feliciana Parish (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Louisiana State Penitentiary, Museums in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, People from West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, St. Francisville, Louisiana, John Rarick, Robert H. Barrow, Wilbert Rideau, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Billy Sinclair, National Register of Historic Places listings in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Myrtles Plantation, Baton Rouge - Pierre Part combined statistical area, James Monroe Smith, Pete Heine, The Angolite, Samuel Lawrason, John M. Parker, Robert Hillary King, Isaac Franklin, Red Hat Cell Block, Angola Three, Tunica, Louisiana, Miguel Pate, George Mathews, River Bend Nuclear Generating Station, Rosedown Plantation, Derrick Todd Lee, Bains, Louisiana, Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, West Feliciana Parish Public Schools, Wakefield, Louisiana, Trudeau Landing, Old River, Grace Episcopal Church, Solitude Plantation House, Locust Grove State Historic Site, Bloodhound Site. 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 Ne...