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Profile of Angola Prison
- The total inmate population of Louisiana State Penitentiary is 5,161 as of March 2009.
- There are 3,726 inmates (72 percent) currently serving life sentences at Louisiana State Penitentiary.
- Eighty one of Angola Prison's 5,161 inmates are currently on death row.
- Approximately 95 percent of the inmates currently incarcerated in Angola will never leave prison.
- Louisiana Sate Penitentiary is located on 18,000 acres and consists of the Main Prisons, which houses approximately 2,500 inmates, and six out camps (Camps C, D, F, J, RC, and Death Row), which house about 2,500 inmates.
- Dormitory-style units house general population inmates. Single cells are often used to house inmates in administrative segregation, disciplinary detention/extended lockdown, protective custody, and those assigned to Death Row.
- Seventy six percent of the Angola inmate population is black (3,923 inmates), 24 percent is white (1,230 inmates). The remaining 11 inmates are Indian, Hawaiian, Asian, or Latino.
- At 18,000 acres, the prison?s grounds are so vast that the island of Manhattan would fit inside its gates.
- Surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, the prison regularly faces the threat of flooding. Last April, due to rising waters, LSP staff began 24-hour patrols of the Angola Levee System to ensure that the prison perimeter remained secure. In 1997, the record high waters breached the outer levee ring surrounding the prison, flooding 2,000 acres and bringing the river right to edge of the main prison grounds.
- The inmate currently serving the longest incarceration at Angola is Sammie Robinson. He has been in Angola for 55 years.
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