Louisiana Correctional Institute For Women In 1963

No lie, I thought this was a still from a sexploitation film, but apparently it’s a candid snapshot of a warden and his charges from Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in 1963. He’d probably get fired for a pic like this nowadays, but who knows?

In 1961 the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women opened on the grounds of a former prison farm camp. Female inmates were moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) to LCIW. A 200 bed dormitory intended to alleviate an overcrowding of female prisoners was scheduled to open in the northern hemisphere spring of 1995. In 1995 the state received federal approval for its plan to double-bunk inmates. That way the state could transfer state-sentenced female prisoners who were held in parish jails to the women’s prison. The television special 900 Women: Inside St. Gabriel’s Prison is about the women inside the facility… read more >