The Louisiana Legislature cut $1.6 million from the state budget last month that was meant to extend a water line from the City of St. Gabriel’s water system to the state’s new women’s prison under construction in Iberville Parish.
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Louisiana will likely face challenges in hiring the guards, medical personnel, teachers and therapists and it needs for a new, controversial juvenile justice secure care facility it plans to open later this year at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana will transfer 602 people in prison at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola to other correctional facilities over the next three months in order to cope