PUTTING LOUISIANA PRISONS ON NOTICE: A CALL FOR DEATH NOTIFICATION TO NEXT-OF-KIN IN THE EVENT OF AN INMATE'S DEATH Loyola Law ReviewArnold, Ashley E.
Websites that contain inmate records may provide different levels of information about offenders held by the state. Offenders may be held in state prisons, parish jails, correctional facilities or other penal institutions. The information available can include: Sentencing details, like the type and cl...
If the offender is in a federal facility, users should contact theFederal Bureau of Prisons, which has its own inmate locator or call 202-307‑3198. Other states also have inmate locators, and links to these are on the TDCJ website underRelated Links. For city jails and other law enfor...
The state is also the site of one of the country's most notorious prisons: Angola. Angola is a majority black prison where the inmate 'rodeo' provides annual entertainment for largely white audiences and hundreds of thousands of dollars to supplement the inmate welfare fund and matriculation in...
All Wilbert Rideau needed to do for four decades as an inmate in one of America's harshest prisons - the Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana - was keep his head down. But that isn't his style. Instead Rideau, incarcerated in 1961 for murder, took precisely the wrong path. He turned ...