INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: New EHCC warden addresses staffing shortage, contraband and deaths at troubled prison

ST. GABRIEL — The fourth warden to lead Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in two years sat down with WBRZ Investigative Unit’s Bess Casserleigh to talk about what has changed at the prison in the six months since he took over.

Warden Travis Day brings 27 years of corrections experience to the job, with most of it spent working as a nurse for the Department of Corrections.

He said those medical skills now shape how he runs the prison…

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