Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 15, § 866.2. Disposition of abandoned property of discharged inmates

A. Any property abandoned by a prisoner in a penal institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections at the time of his discharge from the custody of the department shall, after ninety days from his release, be disposed of in the following manner:

B. For the purposes of this Section, all property which the prisoner leaves at the institution or anywhere within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, or which he fails to take with him upon discharge and to which he makes no claim prior to his discharge or within ninety days thereafter, shall be considered abandoned.

C. At the conclusion of a disciplinary proceeding against a prisoner, which proceeding indicates that property was obtained by the inmate through fraud or misrepresentation of his situation or his personal data such as his race, sex, age, marital status, offender class, nature of his conviction, or release dates, said property shall be returned to the complaining victim upon his submission of an affidavit setting forth the facts of the fraudulent or misrepresented transaction and his request that the property be returned to him. All such property allegedly obtained through fraud or misrepresentation may be suspended or held in the inmate's prison account or in inventory storage by the warden pending outcome of the disciplinary proceeding and receipt of the complainant's affidavit. Absent receipt of said affidavit within thirty days of its being requested of the complaining victim by the institution, said property shall be disposed of as set forth in Paragraph (A)(2) above.