Angola Prison Will Be Used for Immigrant Detainees

Activists demand transparency as 'Louisiana Lockup' opens at Angola Prison

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — After Governor Jeff Landry introduced "The Louisiana Lockup" at Angola, which is set to house over 200 criminals in the country illegally, many community organizations are speaking out. Tia Fields with the Baton Rouge NAACP said they'll be met with harsh conditions, or worse. "When we talk about the carceral economy, we're looking at bed quotas. We're looking at slave labor. The same things that the current i…

Angola Prison will be used for immigrant detainees

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry will join the federal government in the immigration crackdown at Angola Prison.  Landry’s agenda specifically intends to target the “worst of the worst” criminal undocumented immigrants in the state of Louisiana. Landry has been in coordination with the federal government to develop plans to house undocumented federal detainees in an unused area of Angola prison.  Angola boasts the largest maximum-security facility…