Louisiana State Penitentiary

==Management==
[[File:Louisiana DOC - Angola.jpg|thumb|[[Louisiana Department of Corrections]] patch with Angola Tab]]
Angola was designed to be as self-sufficient as possible; it functioned as a miniature community with a canning factory, a dairy, a mail system, a small ranch, repair shops, and a sugar mill. Prisoners raised food staples and cash crops. The self-sufficiency was enacted so taxpayers would spend less money and so politicians such as Governor of Louisiana [[Huey P. Long]] would have an improved public image. In the 1930s prisoners worked from dawn until dusk.<ref name="Leadbelly101"/>

As of 2009 there are three levels of solitary confinement. "Extended lockdown" is colloquially known as "Closed Cell Restricted" or "CCR". Until a period before 2009, [[death row]] inmates had more privileges than "extended lockdown" inmates, including the privilege of watching television.<ref name="solitaryconf">Biggs, Brooke Shelby. "[http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/camp-j-red-hats-and-hole Camp J, Red Hats, and the Hole]." ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]''. March 5, 2009. Retrieved on August 25, 2010.</ref>

"Extended lockdown" was originally intended as a temporary punishment. The next most restrictive level was, in 2009, "Camp J", referring to an inmate housing unit that houses solitary confinement. The most restrictive level is "administrative segregation", colloquially referred to by inmates as the "dungeon" or the "hole".<ref name="solitaryconf"/>