Louisiana State Penitentiary
| Angola | |
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| 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"
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| Nickname(s): "Angola", "Alcatraz of the South", and "The Farm" | |
 Angola
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| Coordinates: 30°57′22″N 91°35′41″W / 30.95611°N 91.59472°WCoordinates: 30°57′22″N 91°35′41″W / 30.95611°N 91.59472°W | |
| 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. | |
 Images of LSP - Andrew Testa Gallery
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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 the slaves of this former plantation originally came from.
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, 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 lived 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. Union soldiers occupied the prison during the Civil War. In 1869 Samuel Lawrence James, a former Confederate major, received the lease to the prison.
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