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St. Landry Parish Jail Overview

St. Landry Parish Jail is the only official local jail facility resolved from the project facility map. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections parish directory lists St. Landry Parish Jail as the parish local jail, and the sheriff's Corrections page describes the same operation as the St. Landry Parish Correctional Center. The operator is the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office. The jail is a county-jail style secure custody facility, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center.

The sheriff's corrections page says the facility securely incarcerates people convicted of crimes and those awaiting trial. That is a mixed parish jail population. Some people may be newly arrested and waiting for first appearance or bond review. Others may be serving local time, waiting on transfer, or held because of another agency matter. The public St. Landry LAVNS roster is a current-custody list for this jail setting, but it is not a complete case file and is not a statewide prison record.

The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office corrections page screenshot in the manifest documents the local corrections function and the office context for the jail.

That sheriff source supports treating St. Landry Parish Jail as the local jail facility for people awaiting trial and people convicted of crimes in parish custody.

St. Landry Parish Jail Population

Official sheriff and DPS&C facility pages reviewed for St. Landry Parish Jail did not publish a standalone current rated-capacity field. A St. Landry Parish Government Jail Regular Meeting Minutes PDF dated October 16, 2024 discussed capacity in response to a question about whether the issue was "out of a 244 capacity," and Parish President Jessie Bellard answered yes. The same minutes discussed a trustee dorm that could hold 68 and a $17.00 per day trustee-dorm housing cost. Those figures should be read as official meeting-discussion figures, not as a current fire-marshal capacity certificate.

The live St. Landry LAVNS roster inspected on June 16, 2026 showed 116 offenders and an update timestamp of 11:30:57 AM Central Time. That count is a roster count at one point in time. It is not the jail's annual average daily population, total yearly bookings, or formal census measure. LCLE states LA VINE rosters update every 30 minutes, so any live count can change throughout the day as bookings, releases, transfers, and court orders are processed.

Search St. Landry Parish Jail

Use the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office Jail Roster to search current local custody at St. Landry Parish Jail. The public roster is free and opens with a disclaimer modal. After agreement, the roster can be viewed by Show All or by last-name initial. The inspected page did not provide a text search box or a full booking-profile link. It showed name, DOB, race, gender, arrest-date column, and a VINE icon for custody-notification registration.

1. Open the St. Landry LAVNS roster and accept the roster disclaimer.
2. Use Show All or the person's last-name initial. For common names, use browser find after the list loads.
3. Compare DOB, race, gender, and any arrest-date entry before treating the row as a match.
4. Select the VINE icon if release or transfer notifications are needed.
5. Call the jail at 337-948-5804 or email pir@slpsheriff.com when the roster does not show the needed record.

LA VINE and VINELink also support custody-status checks and notifications by phone at 866-LAVNS-4-U. Louisiana DPS&C routes locate-imprisoned-person searches through VINELink for state custody after sentence or transfer. Federal inmates use the BOP locator after BOP designation, while immigration detainees use the ICE locator. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's app is available through Google Play and the Apple App Store for public-safety information, tips, and interactive features, but the store listings reviewed did not verify an app-only inmate roster.

St. Landry Parish Jail Contact

The jail contact channel is important because the online roster does not show every detail a family member, attorney, or records requester may need. Charges, bond, housing, medical access, mail status, visitation eligibility, and release timing may require phone confirmation or an official records request. The sheriff's contact page gives the street address and jail phone, while the DPS&C parish page also lists a jail fax and mailing address for the local jail.

The manifest screenshot from the sheriff's official contact information page shows the jail address, mailing address, and jail phone used for St. Landry Parish Jail contact routing.

Use that jail contact point when a current roster row is missing, stale, incomplete, or unclear because of intake, release, transfer, or another agency hold.

Visit St. Landry Parish Jail

Visitation at St. Landry Parish Jail is a privilege and can be restricted, denied, revoked, limited, or stopped for rule violations, security threats, emergencies, escapes, riots, or disruption to facility order. Visits are non-contact and last 20 minutes. No more than three people may visit at one time. A visitor may visit only one offender per day, and split visits are not allowed. Visitors need valid identification, and visitors ages 13 through 17 must be with an adult. Visitors incarcerated within six months of the request are denied unless they are relatives.

The jail may deny visits for contraband, revealing or suggestive clothing, alcohol odor, apparent intoxication, lack of ID, or false ID. Visitors may be searched. Phones, radios, recording devices, cameras, purses, containers, illegal items, writing instruments, weapons, lighters, and tobacco are prohibited in secure areas. The posted schedule is housing based, so confirm the person's housing and active custody before traveling.

The sheriff's St. Landry Parish Jail visitation page screenshot supports the housing-based schedule and rule set used for visits.

The schedule should be matched to the inmate's current housing assignment, which may not be visible on the public roster.

St. Landry Parish Jail Mail

Mail at St. Landry Parish Jail is screened for security. The sheriff's mail rules state that incoming and outgoing mail is inspected and processed daily except weekends and holidays. Incoming mail should be delivered by a correctional officer within 24 hours during normal workdays. Mail for a released or transferred person is returned to sender. Offender-to-offender mail is prohibited without prior written approval. Legal mail is opened only in the offender's presence and inspected for contraband.

Public incoming mail is copied, and the original envelope and original contents are not issued. Photos are allowed unless sexually explicit, but only 10 photos may be retained in the cell at one time. Paperback books must come straight from a publisher or accepted online distributor. Amazon Marketplace vendors are not treated as secure sources. Magazines and newspapers are not permitted. Ordinary mail is not the money-order route; use the fund-specific process listed by the sheriff.

St. Landry Parish Jail Funds

Money and commissary rules are detailed enough to check before sending funds. The sheriff's offender-funds page lists a lobby kiosk for cash or card deposits, online deposits through GTL, and USPS money orders. Lobby cash deposits carry a $3.25 cash-deposit charge. Card and online deposits show a service charge before finalizing. If a person has debt from prior incarceration, 50 percent of a new deposit goes to that debt and 50 percent remains available for commissary, phone time, tablet time, and related uses.

Commissary is delivered Mondays and Thursdays. Monday orders must be placed by Sunday before 10 p.m., and Thursday orders must be placed by Tuesday before 10 p.m. The weekly food and beverage limit is $150. Released or transferred people have a limited pickup process for undelivered commissary. The official offender-funds page screenshot in the manifest shows the jail deposit methods, kiosk fee, and GTL link used for St. Landry Parish Jail accounts.

Because money is tied to a live custody account, verify the person's custody status before using the kiosk, GTL, or the money-order process.

St. Landry Parish Jail Booking

Booking at St. Landry Parish Jail can follow an arrest by the sheriff, Opelousas police, Eunice police, state police, or another agency. Published local pages do not provide a complete booking manual, but the research supports a practical sequence: arrest and transport, identification, property and money intake, screening, classification, housing assignment, initial phone access, and transfer of custody data into jail and LAVNS systems. LCLE's roster update guidance means a new booking may take time to appear online.

Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure article 230.1 requires a person in custody after arrest to be brought before a judge promptly, and within 72 hours from arrest for appointment of counsel, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays from the calculation. That court step is separate from the roster. The roster may show custody before formal charges appear in ClerkConnect or in a court file. For the court side of the process, use the clerk and prosecutor records path rather than treating the jail row as the final charge record.

About St. Landry Parish Jail

The sheriff's corrections page states that the jail provides structured programming intended to support accountability and successful reintegration into the community. The tablet program adds operational detail because tablets can be used for grievances, nurse-visit requests, PREA inquiries, account-balance inquiries, and general questions. The research did not locate a detailed local GED, vocational, substance-abuse, medical, or work-release schedule published by the sheriff, so those should not be described as confirmed program offerings.

The facility map also found no official current city jail, state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, work-release annex, or separate parish detention annex in St. Landry Parish. City-level arrests from Opelousas or Eunice may route into the parish jail unless a later official city holding source says otherwise. For people transferred out after sentencing, use the Louisiana DPS&C and VINELink route. For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP, U.S. Marshals, or ICE channels, not the St. Landry Parish Jail roster.