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About Tallulah, LA

In November 1994 the state opened the privately operated Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth on the western edge of the city. Residents hoped it would provide jobs for local people and aid the local economy, but there were soon problems associated with management of the facility, and the jobs there were low paying. In addition to problems within the facility, the prison seemed to have an adverse effect on the city. In 1999 the state took over operating the facility, renaming it as the Swanson Correctional Center for Youth/Madison Parish Unit but there continued to be problems with the treatment of youth. A coalition of townspeople began to work on ideas for different uses for the land.