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Elayn Hunt Correctional Center
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Elayn Hunt Correctional Center is a state prison located in Iberville County, Louisiana. Rated capacity: 1,975. Reported population: 1,999. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, is a multi-security- level Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections institution for adult men. It is the second-largest prison in Louisiana and is located about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans. Elayn Hunt has about half the number of prisoners held at the larger Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Since 2010, male inmates from all parishes enter the DOC system through the Hunt Reception and Diagnostic Center (HRDC) at Hunt.
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Capacity
1,975
Current population
1,999
Occupancy
101%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Louisiana
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
6/100
Low concern6/100
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 101% of design capacity
- · 2 oversight reports in the last 5 years
This facility scores 6. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 4 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 101% · peers avg: 93% (+9%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1975 · peers avg: 547 (+261%)
Reports
- propublica28 Mar 2024
or the East Yard Raiders in the prison’s full-pads football league. After the team won the prison championship in 2009, he was chosen for Angola’s all-star team. They traveled to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center to compete against its best players. After Angola dominated most of the game, its coaches pulled their starters to prevent injury, Derrick Magee, a former teammate, said in an interview.
- propublica8 Sept 2023
r statute. “I ain’t never thought a two-year sentence would turn into life,” said Lanieux, who sat for 10 Zoom interviews with Verite News and ProPublica over six months from the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel. “They just throw you away for any little thing.” “They just throw you away for any little thing.” Markus Lanieux As Lanieux started to serve his sentence in 2009, the world
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q3050471)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Elayn Hunt Correctional Center. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/elayn-hunt-correctional-center
Chicago
"Elayn Hunt Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/elayn-hunt-correctional-center.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-elayn-hunt-correctional-cen,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Elayn Hunt Correctional Center},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/elayn-hunt-correctional-center},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}