Raymond Laborde Correctional Center (RLCC), formerly Avoyelles Correctional Center (ACC), is a state prison of

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, operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is located in unincorporated Avoyelles Parish,

, near Cottonport and about south of

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In 1989 Frank Polozola, the U.S. district judge in the state, approved a plan for the state to send over 600 state prisoners who were incarcerated in parish jails to state prisons. Avoyelles and Angola were the two state prisons planned to receive most of these prisoners. In 2011 there was a plan to sell Avoyelles to a private company. The bill failed while in a committee of the

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. In 2012 House Bill 850, which called for the state to look for proposals in privatizing the prison, was launched. The budget under

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called for closing

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chapel at the Avoyelles Correctional Center is a gift of the late Roy O. Martin, Jr., a timber businessman from Alexandria, and his second wife, the former Vinita Johnson (1918-2007), who were advocates of faith-based initiatives in penal institutions.

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Raymond Laborde Correctional Center
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections
Avoyelles Correctional Center
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