Museum Staff

Scarlet Smith, Museum Director

Rolanda Robinson, Administrative Assistant/Operations

Trikina Roach, Security and Big House Cafe Manager

LA State Penitentiary Museum Foundation, Inc.

Board of Directors

Cathy Fontenot President
Corrections Consultant, Mississippi Dept. of Corrections

Perry Stagg 1st Vice-President
Deputy Warden/Operations & Security, Wilkinson County Correctional Facility

Cindy Mann 2nd Vice-President
Louisiana Prison Chapel Foundation

Brian Gremillion* Treasurer
Administrative Director, LSP

Dr. Marianne Fisher-Giorlando Chair, Museum Education Committee
Retired Professor of Criminal Justice, Grambling State University

Eric Lane Secretary
Gerry Lane Enterprise

Francis Abbott Executive Director, LA Board of Pardons & Paroles

Anne-Marie Easley Assistant Warden, LA State Penitentiary

Ronnie Jett Managing Member, Jett’s Enterprises

Gary Young
Retired, Assistant Warden, LA State Penitentiary

Tommy Clark

Jessie L. Perkins

Kerry Myers

Robert “Bob” Johannessen

Cindy Mann Louisiana Prison Chapel Foundation

Elisabeth Pierite-Mora Language Instructor, Tunica Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana

Frankie Steed Pierson Self-Employed, Wilkinson County, MS

Sheryl M. Ranatza Chairman, LA Board of Pardons & Paroles

Dyvar Anderson Wright Information Technology Director, W. Feliciana Parish Government

Perry Stagg

Bretton M. Somers


Ex-officio Members

Darrel Vannoy Warden Louisiana State Penitentiary

Rochelle Ambeau
Deputy Warden
Louisiana State Penitentiary

*Brian Gremillion
Administrative Director
Louisiana State Penitentiary