Find West Feliciana Detention Releases

Detention Center Release Destinations

A departure from West Feliciana Parish Detention Center has several possible meanings. A person may leave on a cash, surety, or property bond. A court may order release on recognizance, which means release on a promise to appear without a conventional bond. Dismissal may permit release when no other hold remains. Completion of a parish sentence or credit for time served may also end local confinement. Each is a potential community release, but the jail’s event record should supply the actual date, type, and releasing authority.

Other departures continue custody. The person may transfer to Louisiana DPS&C, another parish, a federal authority, or immigration custody. Women and juveniles are transferred elsewhere under the sheriff’s published overview, making a vanished roster entry especially weak evidence of community release for either group. Hospital movement also does not establish discharge. Ask where the person went. If another custodian received the person, that agency’s intake and later discharge record finish the chain.

Confirm Detention Center Release

The sheriff publishes two different resources. Its Jail Bookings chronology records recent booking facts such as date, name, age, a stated location, and charges. It does not publish release date, release type, destination, bond outcome, or booking photograph. The separate current LAVNS roster identifies people displayed as incarcerated and provides a last-updated time. Neither source is a historical released-person list.

Use both only as leads, then contact the jail. A name in the booking archive but not on the current roster may reflect release, transfer, a court trip, a data correction, or delay. The date on which a reader first notices the absence is not the release date. The broader released-person search and record process is covered on the West Feliciana Parish release search.

1. Match the booking by full name, approximate booking date, known alias, and case or booking number when available.
2. Check the roster’s timestamp and note whether the exact person is currently displayed.
3. Call 225-784-3158 and ask whether that booking ended in community release or transfer.
4. Request the event date, event type, releasing authority, and destination or receiving agency.
5. Pair the answer with the 20th Judicial District court minute and any receiving-system record.

Detention Center Release Contact

The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office operates the facility. Published administrative hours apply to routine inquiries, but they do not establish a daily release schedule. No official source states an exit door, family waiting point, weekend or holiday release practice, ride service, release-day phone process, or property-return method. Ask the facility about those details for the specific event instead of relying on another jail’s custom.

The official detention information page is the source for these contacts and administrative hours. Its capture shows the facility’s published information, not proof that any named person was released.

Use the phone number with a booking date and identifier so staff can distinguish one custody episode from another.

Detention Center Custody Mix

The WFPSO Detention Division describes a maximum capacity of 39 people. Capacity is not a count of releases, daily population, or turnover. The same source says the facility holds people awaiting trial, parish-sentenced people, and people sentenced to Louisiana DOC custody. That mixed population is the main reason a local exit must be classified before anyone calls it release into the community.

A pretrial person may leave on bond or court authority while the case continues. A parish-sentenced person may complete a local term. A DPS&C-sentenced person can leave the facility yet remain under a state sentence at another site. WFPSO can establish departure from its building, while Louisiana DPS&C establishes whether a state-owned sentence continued, ended in discharge, or moved into community supervision.

The captured division page documents the small facility and varied custody classes that make custodian identification essential.

Request Detention Center Records

A targeted WFPSO request is the strongest documentary route when the public pages stop at booking and current display. Requests may be submitted in person at the courthouse, by mail, email, or fax through the sheriff’s official reports route. Give the full name, aliases, approximate booking date, and booking or case number if known. If the person had several bookings, identify each episode separately.

Ask for existing records, not a newly written explanation. Useful fields include booking number, admission date and time, release date and time, release type or reason, releasing authority, destination or transfer agency, bond disposition, and any releasable property acknowledgement. When the timestamp’s meaning is unclear, ask whether it marks physical departure or database entry. A transfer response should identify the receiving authority so confirmation can continue there.

Release record

The jail event record showing how and when a booking ended.

Transfer

Movement to another custodian, not release into the community.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another authority to take or retain custody.

Time served

Credit or sentence completion that may support release when no other hold remains.

Louisiana public-record law supports access procedures, but exemptions may apply. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, medical, victim, investigative, and confidential corrections material can be withheld or redacted. Ask the custodian to separate any releasable fields instead of assuming the whole jail file is open.

Detention Center Court Authority

The West Feliciana Clerk of Court keeps numbered criminal dockets and daily minutes for the 20th Judicial District. A minute can explain bond, recognizance, dismissal, plea, sentence, credit for time served, probation, revocation, or an amended commitment. It answers why the court authorized a change. The jail event record answers whether and when staff carried out the physical movement.

Those records are complementary. A court release order may precede processing, satisfaction of a bond condition, or resolution of another hold. If the roster still lists the person, note its update time and call the facility. Conversely, a jail record that says “court order” may not describe the underlying case result. Obtain the matching minute rather than guessing from the exit code.

Note: A court order supplies legal authority, while the detention event and any receiving record establish the actual custody path.

Small Jail Beside Angola

West Feliciana Parish contains the Detention Center, the sheriff’s Transitional Work Program, and Louisiana State Penitentiary. They are not one corrections system. The first two are operated by WFPSO, although a participant may be serving a DPS&C-owned sentence. Angola is a state maximum-security prison operated by Louisiana DPS&C. The same surname, parish location, or courthouse does not merge those sources.

Begin with the agency that had physical custody. For this Detention Center, ask WFPSO how the exact booking ended. If the answer names the Transitional Work Program, state prison, another parish, BOP, or ICE, continue with that recipient. If the answer is community release under state supervision, verify the assigned Probation and Parole district through the DPS&C locator. This method prevents a local exit from being misstated as final discharge.

Angola Booking Release Conflicts

An Angola address in the WFPSO booking archive can describe a new parish matter involving a person who remains a Louisiana DPS&C prisoner. It does not prove that Angola released the person or that the person became an ordinary parish detainee. This is a distinctive West Feliciana problem because the state penitentiary and local court system occupy the same parish geography.

Reconstruct the event in separate lanes. Check the parish booking and roster for the local episode. Search statewide LAVNS status and use the DPS&C number when possible. Read the 20th JDC docket for the new case, then obtain WFPSO’s release or transfer event. A local bond on the new charge may resolve only that case while the older state sentence continues. Reserve “released from Angola” for a confirmed state custody change.

Detention Center Release Logistics

WFPSO has not published a fixed daily release time, precise exit, waiting area, transport option, weekend timetable, gate payment, phone procedure, or property-return rule. Those gaps should remain explicit. A normal-sounding practice borrowed from a larger Louisiana jail could be wrong for this 39-person facility. Release processing may also differ by bond, court order, sentence completion, transfer, or another hold.

Call 225-784-3158 with the person’s name and booking details. Ask whether release has been executed, whether any other custodian is involved, and which operational instructions apply. For a planned pickup, confirm timing and location with staff close to the event. Never use a projected time as proof that the person has left custody.