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Before 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft × ft (1.8 m × 1.1 m). [ 11]
Country. United States. State (s) Louisiana. Date apprehended. May 27, 2003. Derrick Todd Lee (November 5, 1968 – January 21, 2016), also known as The Baton Rouge Serial Killer, was an American serial killer who, from 1998 to 2003, terrorized the areas surrounding Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana, by committing the murders of at least ...
The Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) (French: Département de la sécurité publique et des services correctionnels de Louisiane) is a state law enforcement agency responsible for the incarceration of inmates and management of facilities at state prisons within the state of Louisiana. The agency is headquartered in Baton ...
Lawsuit against city of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Police Department and officers [3] settled for $4.5 million [4] On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The officers, who were attempting to control ...
On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack, [9] in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling.Four died, including one who was critically wounded and died from complications in 2022, and two others were hospitalized; of the officers who initially died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked ...
The department is divided into nine troops, with its headquarters in Baton Rouge.The troops are divided as follows: Troop A (Baton Rouge): covers the following 9 parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, St. James (east bank), Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana
79.1 sq mi (205 km 2 ). The Baton Rouge Police Department ( BRPD) (French: Département de Police de Bâton Rouge) is the primary law enforcement agency in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Chief of Police, as of March 8, 2018, was Murphy Paul. The BRPD was formally established in 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, with the ...
2015 Lafayette shooting. / 30.20199; -92.04584. On July 23, 2015, a mass shooting occurred at the Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. [3] John Russell Houser, [4] [5] 59, opened fire during a showing of the film Trainwreck, killing two people and injuring nine others before committing suicide.