Louisiana State Penitentiary Prison System

Introduction

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (also famous as Angola and "The Farm") is a prison within Louisiana functioned via the Louisiana Department of Corrections. The prison is the biggest extreme protection prison within the United States with 5,000 inmates and 1,800 attendants members. (Mitchel 12)It is established onto an 18,000 acre (73 km²) house that was ahead of the Angola and else plantations owned via Isaac Franklin within unincorporated West Feliciana Parish, approaching the Mississippi border. The prison is established at the terminus of Louisiana Highway 66, and the prison is approximately 22 miles (35 km) northwest ...