Flooding Forces Evacuation of Prison
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
About 3,000 inmates were temporarily evacuated to higher ground as waters from the swollen Mississippi River threatened to undermine a levee protecting the nation’s largest prison farm. Inmates were moved to a tent city on the only bit of high ground on the 18,000-acre Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
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