It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft (1.8 m) by 3.5 ft (1.1 m). The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. The electric chair is a replica of the original ' Gruesome Gertie'.īefore 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. Old cell block no longer in use John Whitley, who served as a warden at Angola The former Angola execution chamber at the Red Hat Cell Block. In the photo is Lead Belly, a singer who was jailed at Angola when recorded by Alan Lomax. 1900 Riverboat America with convicts and supplies on the Mississippi River, circa late 1800s Samuel Lawrence James Quarters C, 1901 Prison camp, July 1934. Death row for men and the state execution chamber for women and men are located at the Angola facility. The prison is located at the end of Louisiana Highway 66, around 22 miles (35 km) northwest of St. The 28 square miles (18,000 acres) of land the prison sits on what was known before the American Civil War as the Angola Plantations, a slave plantation, owned by slave trader Isaac Franklin. It lies less than two miles (three kilometers) south of Louisiana's straight east-west border with Mississippi. Located in West Feliciana Parish, the prison is set between oxbow lakes on the east side of a bend of the Mississippi River, thus flanked on three sides by water. Due to these large numbers, it has been given the nickname 'a gated community'. Īngola is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance workers, and wardens. The plantation was named after the country of Angola from which many slaves originated before arriving in Louisiana.

It is named 'Angola' after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory. 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.

The USGS topographic map of Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1994 The GNIS for the previous Louisiana State Penitenitary building in Baton Rouge is 552789. The GNIS ID for the Louisiana State Penientiary 'locale' is 536752, the GNIS ID for the museum is 2603238, the GNIS ID for the fire department building is 2673017, and the GNIS ID for the adult school facility is 2434828. The above GNIS IDs are related to the 'populated places'.

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