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The USGS topographic map of Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1994. 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.
Archaeological looting is the illicit removal of artifacts from an archaeological site. Such looting is the major source of artifacts for the antiquities market . [ 1 ] Looting typically involves either the illegal exportation of artifacts from their country of origin or the domestic distribution of looted goods. [ 2 ]
The Trudeau Landing site , also known as Tunica Village and Trudeau, is an archaeological site in Tunica, unincorporated West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was once occupied by the Tunica tribe. Later European settlers developed it into the Trudeau Plantation.
The state's facilities do not have the capacity to house all offenders sentenced under state law, so the state reimburses local governments housing prisoners with state sentences. [18] Since its inception, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections has lost 12 officers in line-of-duty deaths, the latter two due to COVID-19 .
Removing human remains from a cemetery was already illegal under state law, but the new law clarified the relevant definitions, contained stronger penalties for violating the law, and found that "Louisiana law has never permitted, recognized, or sanctioned ownership rights in human remains".
Louisiana corrections spokesman Ken Pastorick called that description “absurd.” He said the phrase “sentenced with hard labor” is a legal term referring to a prisoner with a felony conviction.
This is a list of adult state prisons in Louisiana. It does not include federal prisons or parish jails located in the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections directly operates all except two. Allen Correctional Center; Avoyelles Correctional Center - As of 2012, the state planned to privatize Avoyelles [1]
A teenage girl was reportedly raped by an inmate at a Louisiana state prison while attending the controversial Angola Prison Rodeo. According to WBRZ, the inmate was seen leaving a bathroom with a ...