Old St. Helena Parish Jail
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Photo by Jonathan Fricker via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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Photo by Jonathan Fricker via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Jonathan Fricker via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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Background
The Old St. Helena Parish Jail, adjacent to the courthouse square in Greensburg in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, was built in about 1855 and is one of the oldest structures in the parish. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a two-story brick building with remains of cells, including bars in windows.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1855
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1855
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Security level
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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
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.