Museum Staff

Scarlett Smith, Museum Director

Trikina Roach, Security and Big House Cafe Manager

LA State Penitentiary Museum Foundation, Inc.

Board of Directors

Cindy Mann President
Louisiana Prison Chapel Foundation

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

Eric Lane 2nd Vice-President
Gerry Lane Enterprise

Brian Gremillion* Treasurer
Administrative Director, LSP

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

Robert “Bob” Johannessen Secretary

Francis Abbott Executive Director, LA Board of Pardons & Paroles

Anne-Marie Easley Assistant Warden, LA State Penitentiary

Ronnie Jett Managing Member, Jett’s Enterprises

Tommy Clark, Jr. Chief of Police & Superintendent of Safety Services Grambling City Police Department

Harrison Cade Nolan Chief of Detectives Union Parish Sheriff’s Office

Jessie L. Perkins

Kerry Myers

Max Nuza Lt. and Corrections Operations, Policy & RMS East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office

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

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

Dyvar Anderson 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