ANGOLA PRISON, LOUISIANA - OCTOBER 14, 2013:
A prisoner's hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm" is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named Angola after the former plantation that occupied this territory, which was named for the African country that was the origin of many enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana in slavery times.
This is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States[with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance, and wardens. It is located on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) property that was previously known as the Angola Plantations and bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River.
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A two-year-old boy with autism has allegedly been buried alive by his grandfather.
The incident that ensued at Dutch Komenda in the Central Region has shocked the community.
The grandfather is said to have carried out his action after he was told the child was a spirit child and buried him at the shores of the coastal town.
But, for the timely intervention of the police, he would have died.
Some of the residents have described the incident as barbaric and reprehensible.
