Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women

Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women
Location 7205 LA-74
St. Gabriel, Louisiana
Status open
Security class mixed
Capacity 1100
Opened 1961
Managed by Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections

Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) is a prison for women located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana. It is the only female correctional facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center is immediately west of LCIW.[1] LCIW includes the state's female death row.[2]

History

In 1961 the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women opened on the grounds of a former prison farm camp. Female inmates were moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) to LCIW.[3] A 200 bed dormitory intended to alleviate an overcrowding of female prisoners was scheduled to open in the northern hemisphere spring of 1995.[4] In 1995 the state received federal approval for its plan to double-bunk inmates. That way the state could transfer state-sentenced female prisoners who were held in parish jails to the women's prison.[5] The television special 900 Women: Inside St. Gabriel's Prison is about the women inside the facility.[6]

Notable inmates

Death row

References

  1. ↑ "Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women." Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Retrieved on August 24, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Classification–Where Inmates Serve Their Time." Inside the System: How Inmates Live and Work. Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. 14/40. Retrieved on June 30, 2010.
  3. ↑ "LOUISIANA CORRECTINS TIMELINE." [sic] The Advocate. March 12, 2000. News 13A. Retrieved on August 29, 2010. "1961 Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women opened in an old prison farm camp at St Gabriel with female prisoners moved from Angola..."
  4. ↑ "Women inmates overflow prisons, parish jails in La.." The Advocate. December 1, 1994. Retrieved on August 29, 2010. "this spring when the state opens a 200-bed dormitory complex now under construction at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel"
  5. ↑ "State to double-bunk women inmates." The Advocate. November 18, 1995. Retrieved on August 29, 2010.
  6. ↑ "900 Women: Inside St. Gabriel's Prison." The New York Times. Retrieved on August 29, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Ex-officer denies link to bone find." Associated Press at The Dallas Morning News. November 12, 1995. Retrieved on October 14, 2010. "Robert Jenkins, Ms. Frank's attorney, said he discussed the case with Ms. Frank last week at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, where she is awaiting execution.."

Coordinates: 30°15′47″N 91°04′23″W / 30.26306°N 91.07306°W / 30.26306; -91.07306

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