East Louisiana State Hospital

[1] The Center Building of East Louisiana State Hospital is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana).

Jones found the treasury had no funds, the patients had no clothes to wear, and lacked the necessities of life.

He organized the strongest inmates as farm laborers and had them produce vegetables and field products for consumption in the asylum.

[4] The New Orleans Civil Sheriff transported more than 80 patients to the Insane Asylum in 1895,[5] The hospital, then known as the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane, did not participate in the early twentieth century eugenics movement, which called for the sterilization of persons considered to be mental defectives, however such persons were segregated.

[9] The hospital has a forensic unit where people who have committed crimes and been judged insane receive care.