Opened 1990 Capacity 1,538 Managed by LaSalle Corrections | Phone +1 318-628-3971 Security class medium security Director Keith Deville, Warden | |
Similar Beauregard Parish Jail, Louisiana Political Museum, Eloy Detention Center, Cimarron Correctional Facility, Kisatchie National Forest | ||
Winn Correctional Center (WCC) is a state prison for men, part of the Louisiana Department of Corrections prison system, located about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Winnfield in Winn Parish, Louisiana. It is within the Kisatchie National Forest.
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As of February 2014, Winn is one of several privately operated prisons in the state. The facility is medium-security and currently houses 1,538 inmates. Opened in 1990, it was expanded in 1992.
Winn opened as the first privately managed medium-security prison in the United States. Management of the state-owned facility passed from Corrections Corporation of America to LaSalle Corrections in mid-2015.
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Demographics
As of 2016 75% of the inmates are black, and 25% of the prisoners are white or of other ethnic groups. Like in other Louisiana prisons, prison gangs are not common and inmates of various races socialize with one another. About 20% of the prisoners at Winn had committed crimes related to recreational drugs.
As of 2016 Women, including some single mothers, make up more than 50% of the prison guards. Blacks make up the majority of the prison guards.
Composition
The prison has five units: Ash, Birch, Cypress, Dogwood, and Elm. More difficult to manage prisoners are located in the Ash and Elm units, nicknamed by prisoners as "the projects". Dogwood houses trustees and better behaved prisoners, Cypress serves as the segregation unit, and Birch houses mentally ill, elderly, and physically handicapped prisoners.