[3] In 1961 the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women opened on the grounds of a former prison farm camp.

Female inmates were moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) to LCIW.

[4] A 200 bed dormitory intended to alleviate an overcrowding of female prisoners was scheduled to open in the northern hemisphere spring of 1995.

[7] In August 2016 the facility, which had 985 prisoners,[8] experienced flooding, ranging from 8 in (20.3 cm) to 3 ft (0.91 m).

[9] LCIW, the only state-operated prison to receive flooding during that incident, temporarily closed.

[11] As of 2017[update] the prisoners are divided between Jetson, where the administration of LCIW is temporarily located; Angola; and Elayn Hunt.

[12] As of 2019[update] the prison remained closed as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had not yet determined how much of the facility sustained damage; once this is done the state plans to raze the flooded buildings as it determined that demolition is more cost effective.