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The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm" [8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory. [9]
Henry Smith settled in London where he joined the Worshipful Company of Salters. [1] By the late 1590s Smith had become a moneylender, and by 1597 was living in St Dunstan-in-the-East. Smith is known to have lent significant sums to Thomas Waller, a member of parliament in Kent, and to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. Through the business he ...
Henry Smith (Texas governor) (1788–1851), governor of Texas; Henry G. Smith (1807–1878), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court; Henry K. Smith (1811–1854), mayor of Buffalo, New York; Henry Smith (speaker) (1829–1884), speaker of the New York State Assembly; Henry Smith (Wisconsin politician) (1838–1916), United States representative ...
Louisiana State Penitentiary, the prison which Cain managed. Nathan Burl Cain (born July 2, 1942) [1] is an American corrections officer and prison warden who currently serves as the commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections [2] and the former warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Henry G. Smith (1807 – December 31, 1878) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1867 to 1870. [1]Born in Connecticut, [1] Smith was one of the judges serving on the highly partisan "apocryphal" court, which was in place in Tennessee between the end of the American Civil War and the enactment of the Constitution of 1870.
Henry Smith (1876 – February 1, 1893) was an African-American youth who was lynched in Paris, Texas. Smith allegedly confessed to murdering the three-year-old daughter of a law enforcement officer who had allegedly beaten him during an arrest.
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Captain Henry Smith – one of the architects of the uprising and described by officers and soldiers in June 1979 as the officer who was responsible for the success of the uprising – declined membership of the AFRC. He was, nevertheless, given the portfolio of "special duties" and was also put in charge of the Foreign Affairs ministry.