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 plantation that occupied this territory. The plantation was named for the African country that was the origin …

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