Telly Hankton

In his heyday, New Orleans gangster Telly Hankton was the most feared man in New Orleans. Today he sits imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, West Feliciana Parish.

His prisoner number is #589293.

Mr. Hankton became public enemy number one when New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a press conference decrying the murder of bar manager Curtis Matthews at Jazz Daiquiri bar on South Claiborne Avenue in October of 2011.

The mayor staged the presser on the neutral ground of Claiborne Avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.

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