Angola, a gated community

I can't take credit for the funny, or perhaps punny, title.  I recently visited Angola Stat Penitentiary on a trip home to Louisiana and they were selling t-shirts with the one liner on it.  But, it certainly got me thinking about the fact that it is a built environment and houses thousands of people so it honestly is a community.  It's an agrarian environment at that, they grow much of their own food, fish and raise enough cattle to export the beef.  It is known to some as the Alcatraz of the South, being sent to Angola is no laughing matter, the majority of the inmates housed there are in for life.  But as far a prisons go... It is quite lovely.  It sits on 18,000 acres and has a pastoral landscape and is surrounded by woodlands and beautifully dangerous swamps.  The inmates make all of the license plats for the state of Louisiana and Puerto Rico, they make brroms used in prisons all of the the country and mattresses for all of the jails in Louisiana. It is staffed by nearly 2,00 no nonsense guards and a very popular warden who gives the inmates a reason to wake up in the morning.  They all have a job to do and they make the prison run like a well oiled machine, or a successful town.  It was just an interesting thought, and I figured I would share it.  I hope you enjoyed!