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Angola, Louisiana

Angola
Unincorporated community
Louisiana State Penitentiary
The entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary has a guard house that controls entry into the compound—the sign says "Louisiana State Penitentiary" and "Burl Cain, Warden"
The entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary has a guard house that controls entry into the compound—the sign says "Louisiana State Penitentiary" and "Burl Cain, Warden"
Nickname(s): "Angola", "Alcatraz of the South", and "The Farm"
Angola is located in Louisiana
Angola
Angola
Location in Louisiana
Coordinates: 30°57′22″N 91°35′41″W / 30.95611°N 91.59472°W / 30.95611; -91.59472Coordinates: 30°57′22″N 91°35′41″W / 30.95611°N 91.59472°W / 30.95611; -91.59472
Country United States
State Louisiana
Parish West Feliciana
Elevation
Angola Landing is 43 ft
49 ft (15 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes 70712
Area code(s) 225
GNIS feature ID 553304
Angola Landing: 542930
Website doc.louisiana.gov/lsp/
The above GNIS IDs are related to the "populated places". The GNIS ID for the Louisiana State Penentiary "locale" is 536752, the GNIS ID for the museum is 2603238, the GNIS ID for the fire department building is 2673017, and the GNIS ID for the adult school facility is 2434828. The GNIS for the previous Louisiana State Penitenitary building in Baton Rouge is 552789.
External image
Images of LSP - Andrew Testa Gallery

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named Angola after the country from which many of the enslaved Africans came who worked on the former plantation that occupied this territory.

It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance, and wardens. It is located on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) property that was previously the Angola Plantations owned by Isaac Franklin in unincorporated West Feliciana Parish in the east of the state, directly adjacent to the Mississippi state line. The prison is located at the end of Louisiana Highway 66, around 22 miles (35 km) northwest of St. Francisville. Angola is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. Burl Cain served as the warden from 1995 to March 7, 2016.Death row for men and the state execution chamber for both sexes are located at the Angola facility.

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, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. In 1844 the state leased the prison and its prisoners to McHatton Pratt and Company, a private company.


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