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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The Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Northern Regional Police Command has arrested two women for allegedly selling “Wee Toffees” in Tamale in the Northern region.
The suspects Aisha Tahiru, 45 and Amina Mutarla, 27 are believed to be producing and selling the said substance to school pupils.
Briefing the media in Tamale, the Northern Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Bernard Baba Ananga, said preliminary investigations indicate that the suspects sell the ‘Wee Toffees’ to pupils in schools in the Tamale Metropolis.
He said the suspects have since been charged with possession of Narcotic drugs, prohibited business relating to narcotic drugs and supply of narcotics.
Supt. Ananga advised parents and guardians to advise their children to be cautious about the kind of locally made toffees they buy at school.
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