Winn Correctional Center
American men's state prison in Louisiana
File:Results of an Unannounced Inspection of Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana OIG-26-08-Jun26.pdf
Winn Correctional Center (WCC) is a state prison for men, part of the Louisiana Department of Corrections prison system, located about 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Winnfield in unincorporated Winn Parish, Louisiana. It is within the Kisatchie National Forest.
As of February 2014, Winn is one of several privately operated prisons in the state. The facility is medium-security and currently has the capacity to house 1,538 inmates. Opened in 1990, it was expanded in 1992.
Winn opened as the first privately managed medium-security prison in the United States. Management of the state-owned facility passed from Corrections Corporation of America to LaSalle Corrections in mid-2015.
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Demographics
As of 2016 75% of the inmates are black, and 25% of the prisoners are white or of other ethnic groups. Like in other Louisiana prisons, prison gangs are not common and inmates of various races socialize with one another. About 20% of the prisoners at Winn had committed crimes related to recreational drugs.
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