The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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Institute Elayn Hunt Correctional Center Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison Winn Correctional...
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approximately 10 percent of the total electric power demand in Louisiana. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is also located in the parish, in Angola. It occupies...
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Women in St. Gabriel. Executions in Louisiana are currently performed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Louisiana's method of execution is lethal injection...
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State Penitentiary Louisiana State Penitentiary Mississippi State Penitentiary Missouri State Penitentiary Nebraska State Penitentiary Penitentiary of New...
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Gruesome Gertie (redirect from Louisiana's electric chair)
decided to build an execution chamber at the Louisiana State Penitentiary to carry out all executions in Louisiana. Notable executions in the chair were those...
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Louisiana (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions...
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Idaho State Penitentiary, Boise Kansas Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery Louisiana Point Lookout Cemetery and Point Lookout II, Louisiana State Penitentiary...
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Supermax prison (redirect from Maximum Security Penitentiary)
units) Louisiana Louisiana State Penitentiary – West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana United States Penitentiary – Pollock, Louisiana Maine Maine State Prison...
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(9/51). September 3, 2009. Retrieved on September 1, 2010. "Kentucky State Penitentiary Prepares For 165th Execution Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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Dead Man Walking (book) (category Louisiana State Penitentiary)
death row, the book is set largely at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It examines moral issues related to the...
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Will Hayden (category People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
currently serving those sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Hayden was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From an early age, he was a firearms enthusiast...
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Gerald Bordelon (category 21st-century executions by Louisiana)
executed at Louisiana State Penitentiary on January 7, 2010, becoming the first person executed in Louisiana since 2002 and the state's first voluntary...
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Elmo Patrick Sonnier (category 20th-century executions by Louisiana)
American murderer and rapist in Louisiana who was executed by electrocution at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Louisiana on April 5, 1984. Sonnier was sentenced...
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Derrick Todd Lee (category People convicted of murder by Louisiana)
of heart disease at a hospital in Louisiana, where he was transported for treatment from Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he had been awaiting execution...
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Area portal ADX Florence – nicknamed "Alcatraz of the Rockies" Louisiana State Penitentiary – nicknamed "Alcatraz of the South" Tilanqiao Prison, formerly...
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Vincent Simmons (category Louisiana State Penitentiary)
17, 1952) is an American man who was a life prisoner at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, where he was sentenced to 100 years in July 1977 after being...
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department Red Hat Cell Block, a former prison cell block at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Operation Red Hat, a 1971 United States movement of chemical...
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Angola Prison Rodeo (category Louisiana State Penitentiary)
The Angola Prison Rodeo, staged at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is the longest running prison rodeo in the United States. It is held on one weekend...
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Red Hat Cell Block (redirect from Red Hat Cell Block, Louisiana State Penitentiary)
housing unit of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana which, for a time, also contained the state's execution chamber and...
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Burl Cain (category Louisiana State University of Alexandria alumni)
and the former warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He worked there for twenty-one...
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Grambling State University (GSU, Grambling, or Grambling State) is a public historically black university in Grambling, Louisiana. Grambling State is home...
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Leslie Dale Martin (category 21st-century executions by Louisiana)
execution on May 10. On May 10, 2002, Martin was executed at Louisiana State Penitentiary by lethal injection. His last meal consisted of boiled crawfish...
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Hewitt Bouanchaud, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Henry Fuqua, general manager of the Louisiana State Penitentiary Huey Long, Winnfield attorney and Railroad...
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and Louisiana. In 1880 Acklen sold four contiguous plantations in Louisiana as one property. These have formed the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary...
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Rouge Advocate wrote that the salary of Burl Cain, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary from 1995 to 2016, was $167,211 per year, $30,000 higher than...
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Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (category Buildings and structures in Iberville Parish, Louisiana)
state prisoners were buried at Point Lookout Cemetery in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Prior to 2010, Hunt served as the reception center only for...
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The Angolite (category Louisiana State Penitentiary)
and published prison magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. As with the rest of the prison, The Angolite...
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Robert Lee Willie (category 20th-century executions by Louisiana)
drugs. Willie's father, John Willie, served 27 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for a number of crimes. In 1954, he went to prison for cattle...
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Prison farm (redirect from State prison farms)
generally does so at a steep discount from the cost of free labor. Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest prison farm covering 18,000 acres (7,300 hectares);...
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