Louisiana State Penitentiary
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as "The Farm" or "Angola") is a prison in the US state of Louisiana . With more than 5,000 inmates and 1,800 employees, it is the largest maximum security prison in the United States.
The detention center is located on 73 km² in West Feliciana Parish near the Mississippi border and is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River . The prison is located on the site of a former slave plantation. The plantation was named Angola after the homeland of the slaves .
Various films such as Dead Man Walking or Monster's Ball were partly shot here. For the documentary film The Farm: Angola, USA , six prisoners were followed by cameras. In 1999 the short documentary The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo was released about the rodeo taking place in the prison.
Web links
- Louisiana State Penitentiary (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The View From Inside
- ↑ Lara Naughton, America's Prison Rodeo , Guernica Magazine, July 13, 2016.
- ^ And Then One Night, The Making of Dead Man Walking: About the Program: The Producer's Journey
- ↑ DOASKDOTELL MOVIE REVIEWs of Monster's Ball, Shadowboxer, Patti Rocks, and related films ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 30 ° 57 ′ 20 " N , 91 ° 35 ′ 40" W.