Louisiana State Penitentiary

====Red Hat Cell Block====
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[[File:RedHatsLSP2.jpg|thumb|[[Red Hat Cell Block]]]]
The most restrictive inmate housing unit was colloquially referred to as "[[Red Hat Cell Block]]",<ref name="NPSList">"[http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20030228.htm 20030228.htm]." [[National Park Service]]. February 28, 2003. Retrieved on March 13, 2011.</ref> after the red paint-coated straw hats that its occupants wore when they worked in the fields.<ref name="solitaryconf"/> "Red Hat", a one-story, 30-cell building at Camp E, was built in 1933.<ref>[[Billy Sinclair|Sinclair, Billy Wayne]] and Jodie Sinclair. ''A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story''. [[Arcade Publishing]], 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=z84kkV52fW0C&dq=%22When+an+execution+drew+near+on+Louisiana%27s%22&pg=PA51 51]. Retrieved from ''[[Google Books]]'' on October 1, 2010. {{ISBN|1-55970-555-8}}, {{ISBN|978-1-55970-555-4}}.</ref> Brooke Shelby Biggs of ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' reported that men who had lived in "Red Hat" "told of a dungeon crawling with rats, where dinner was served in stinking buckets splashed onto the floors."<ref name="solitaryconf"/>

Warden C. Murray Henderson phased out solitary confinement at "Red Hat".<ref name="sinclairs">Sinclair, Billy and Jodie Sinclair. ''A Life in the Balance: the Billy Wayne Sinclair Story''. [[Arcade Publishing]], 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=z84kkV52fW0C&dq=%22Hunt%27s+gesture+in+closing+the+infamous+cell+block%22&pg=PA132 132]. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on October 28, 2010. {{ISBN|1-55970-555-8}}, {{ISBN|978-1-55970-555-4}}</ref> In 1972 his successor Elayn Hunt had "Red Hat" officially closed.<ref name="sinclairs"/>

In 1977 the administration made Camp J the most restrictive housing unit in Angola.<ref name="solitaryconf"/> On February 20, 2003, the [[National Park Service]] listed the Red Hat Cell Block on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as #03000041.<ref name="NPSList"/>