Status open Phone +1 225-642-5529 Opened 1961 | Security class mixed Capacity 1,100 | |
Location 7205 LA-74St. Gabriel, Louisiana Managed by Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections Address 7205 LA-74, St Gabriel, LA 70776, USA Similar Elayn Hunt Correctio Center, Louisiana State Police He, Iberville Parish Sheriff Ea, Ascension Parish Sheriff Pa, The Departme of Public | ||
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. LCIW includes the state's female death row.
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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. A 200 bed dormitory intended to alleviate an overcrowding of female prisoners was scheduled to open in the northern hemisphere spring of 1995. 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. The television special 900 Women: Inside St. Gabriel's Prison is about the women inside the facility.
Demographics
As of circa the 2010s the prison has about 1,100 prisoners. 80% of the prisoners had children. 126 of the prisoners had sentences of six or fewer years, 126 had life sentences, and two had death sentences. Many prisoners were convicted of drug use and/or of prostitution, as Louisiana law treats prostitution as a sexual offense.
Programs
The prison has the Program for Caring Parents and the Christmas Extravaganza, and women may also participate in some programs offered by Hunt Correctional Center.
Notable inmates
Death row
Non-death row: