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The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") 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.
1901 Angola State Farms and The Board of Control. The State of Louisiana purchased the prison camp from the James family in 1900 and resumed control of its prisoners in 1901 after fifty-six years of convict leasing and conditions for inmates begin to improve.
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Jun 18, 2021 · Angola’s origins as a prison date back to 1880. Then the state awarded the lease of Louisiana State Penitentiary and all of its convicts to a former Confederate Army officer, Samuel L. James. James purchased several plantations across Louisiana, in addition to the Angola Plantation.
By 2008, Angola State Prison had grown to 18,000 acres—the size of Manhattan. It was a maximum-security prison with an inmate population that was almost completely African-American, while the officers who oversaw them were entirely white. The officers were known as “Freemen,” not guards.
Dec 30, 2022 · Founded in the early nineteenth century during a time of radical penal reformation, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is one of the nation’s largest prisons. Although the penitentiary’s original plan focused on prisoner rehabilitation, over time the prison garnered a reputation for brutal treatment of inmates and unhygienic facilities.
The Angola Museum at the Louisiana State Penitentiary aims to preserve the past, honor all progress, and educate the future about Louisiana's most notorious prison.
State of Louisiana. This 18,000-acre antebellum plantation property continues to produce crops and currenty serves as the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. History of Angola Antebellum Period Francis Routh, of West Feliciana Parish, began acquiring the lands currently constituting the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 1827
