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Louisiana Correctional Institute For Women
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Louisiana Correctional Institute For Women is a state prison located in Iberville County, Louisiana. Rated capacity: 1,536. Reported population: 573. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) is the state's only female correctional facility operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center is immediately west of LCIW. Its history dates back to the 1880s, when women convicted of felonies were sentenced to hard labor at a womenâs camp within the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP). Over time, the institution has evolved, expanding rehabilitation opportunities while remaining committed to its core mission of public safety.
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Capacity
1,536
Current population
573
Occupancy
37%
Year opened
1961
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1961
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
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
This facility scores 1. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 1 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project24 Feb 2022
aid of a partner. She’s afraid of the interrogator. Shanda Crain was convicted of killing her parents in 1995 in Washington Parish, Louisiana, but maintains her innocence. At the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, she took a university class called “Law and Feminism,” and she began studying the psychology of confessions. She wrote an academic paper analyzing her own case, using the third
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 (Q2386344)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Louisiana Correctional Institute For Women. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/louisiana-correctional-institute-for-women
"Louisiana Correctional Institute For Women." World Prisons. Accessed October 25, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/louisiana-correctional-institute-for-women.
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urldate = {2026-10-25}
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