Lookup West Feliciana Parish Detention Center Inmates

Detention Center Overview

The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office detention page describes the West Feliciana Parish Detention Center as the parish jail that enforces Louisiana and local penal laws. It holds people booked into jail, people awaiting trial, people sentenced by the parish, and some people sentenced or held for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. That mix makes the jail different from Louisiana State Penitentiary, which is a state prison in the same parish, and from the West Feliciana Parish Transitional Work Program, which serves a work-release style function.

The official jail address listed by the Louisiana DPS&C parish directory is 4834 Feliciana Street, St. Francisville, LA 70775. The sheriff's public counter is listed at 4785 Prosperity Street, St. Francisville, LA 70775. For many records tasks, the public counter and the jail are both relevant. A custody question should start with the jail number, while a local background check or public counter visit may route through the sheriff's courthouse office.

The research for West Feliciana Parish is clear on one point that often causes confusion: females and juveniles are transferred to other facilities. A person arrested in the parish may have a West Feliciana booking event even if that person is not housed at the local detention center for the whole case. If the roster search does not show a name, call the jail before assuming the person was released.

The official detention source shows the local jail's purpose and capacity. The image below is from the WFPSO detention page.

That source is the basis for treating this facility as the primary parish jail, not as the state prison or the work program.

Detention Center Capacity

WFPSO publishes a local capacity of 39 male offenders for the West Feliciana Parish Detention Center. That figure is small when compared with the broader West Feliciana Parish inmate population because the parish also contains Angola, a large state prison. Do not mix those numbers. The 39-offender capacity belongs to the parish detention center. The much larger facility capacity figures in statewide or Vera parish profiles are dominated by Louisiana State Penitentiary and do not describe the jail roster.

The current jail population was not published in the inspected roster state. LAVNS showed a last-updated timestamp during research, but no visible offender rows or count were available. That means the safest public answer is to use the roster, then confirm by phone when a name is not shown.

Detention Center Roster Search

The correct online path for West Feliciana Parish Detention Center custody is the WFPSO Jail Bookings page and the linked West Feliciana LAVNS jail roster. The booking page lists recent booking entries by date, name, age, address or location, and charge text. The LAVNS roster is the current custody channel. During inspection, it used Show All and A-Z last-name filters rather than a typed keyword search box.

1. Open the WFPSO Jail Bookings page for the recent booking list and the current roster link.
2. Accept the LAVNS disclaimer before using the public roster.
3. Use Show All or choose the first letter of the person's last name.
4. If no name appears, call the jail at (225) 784-3158 and ask for current custody information.
5. Use VINELink or the DOC phone locator only when the person is in sentenced state custody.

The roster is not a certified court record. It is a public-safety custody tool. Filed charges, docket numbers, and final case outcomes come from the West Feliciana Parish Clerk of Court and the 20th Judicial District court process. A booking charge can later be changed, reduced, refused, or replaced by a bill of information or indictment.

Detention Center Contact

Use the jail information line for booking questions, housing questions, or a name that does not appear online. The DOC directory number is also published for the facility, but WFPSO's Jail Bookings page points readers to the jail questions number. The sheriff's main office remains the broader agency contact for public counter and administrative issues.

Detention Center Visits

The detention research points to video visitation through a live video feed at an offender kiosk. WFPSO says offenders initiate calls, and the call or video link depends on City Tele Coin funds and registration. The jail page reviewed did not publish a public in-person weekly visitation grid for the detention center. Call before traveling, especially if the person may have been moved, released, or transferred because of sex, age, sentence status, or a hold.

Visitors should not rely on the Transitional Work Program's Sunday schedule for the detention center. The TWP is a separate facility with separate visitor rules. Likewise, Angola's weekend visiting rules apply to the state prison, not to parish jail video visitation.

Detention Center Mail

WFPSO allows letters for people held at West Feliciana Parish Detention Center. Items and packages cannot be mailed, delivered, or brought directly to the jail. Letters are opened and inspected for contraband. The detention FAQ says mail may be returned for perfume, stickers or stamps, water stains, sexually explicit content, and other barred features. Use the person's full name on the envelope.

Those rules matter because a correct roster match is only the first step. Mail, money, and calls must follow the jail's vendor and contraband rules.

Detention Center Records

Louisiana law gives adults a broad right to inspect or copy public records under R.S. 44:31, and R.S. 44:32 sets custodian duties and copy rules. Jail records are still subject to law-enforcement limits. R.S. 44:3 can restrict investigative and prosecutive records, and juvenile records are treated separately. Ask for a specific booking sheet, booking date, charge entry, or jail log rather than a broad investigative file.

Local background checks are handled in person at the sheriff/courthouse public counter with valid driver's license and are limited to West Feliciana Parish records. That is not the same as a statewide criminal history, a court docket search, or a state DOC prison file. For formal charges after an arrest, use the clerk's criminal records path and select VERDICT CRIMINAL when using the clerk's public records search.

Detention Center Conditions

WFPSO publishes a PREA zero-tolerance statement for the detention center. PREA is the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, which addresses sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and sexual harassment in confinement. The sheriff's office describes prevention, detection, response, reporting, investigation, and tracking duties. The research did not locate a local jail medical grievance schedule or a detailed public program list for this facility.

The jail's role remains narrow: it is the local detention point for West Feliciana Parish arrests and certain local or DOC holds. A person sentenced to prison may later leave this roster and appear in a Louisiana DPS&C channel. That is why the West Feliciana Parish jail inmate records search path and the state locator path should be checked separately when custody status changes after sentencing.