Louisiana State Penitentiary. The Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm"[7]) is a prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is the largest maximum security prison in the United States[8] with 6,300 offenders and 1,800 staff. It is located on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) property that was previously the Angola and other 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.
Since 1995, Burl Cain has been the warden. History[edit] Old cell block no longer in use Before 1835, state inmates lived in a jail in New Orleans. Samuel Lawrence James James Lawrence James, father of Samuel Lawrence James Management[edit] Location[edit] Composition[edit] Outcamps[edit] Angola Three. The Angola Three are three prison inmates – Robert Hillary King (born Robert King Wilkerson), Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace – who were put in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary, a.k.a. Angola Prison, after the 1972 killing of a prison guard. Robert King spent 29 years in solitary confinement before his conviction was overturned and he was released.
Wallace, before being released October 1, 2013, and Woodfox spent 40 years of solitary confinement as of 2013. The prisoners have been the subject of two documentary films[1] and international attention. In July 2013 Amnesty International called for the release of 71-year-old Herman Wallace, who had advanced liver cancer.[2] He was released October 1, 2013, and died three days later, on October 4, 2013.[3] History[edit] Initial imprisonment[edit] The three men were taken out of the general prison population and were held in solitary confinement after Miller's murder in 1972.[7] Rahim and Fleming investigation[edit]
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