La Salle Parish Inmate Population Overview
La Salle Parish has a larger detention footprint than many rural parishes. The local jail in Jena is the sheriff-operated booking point for parish arrests, local holds, and pretrial custody. The La Salle Correctional Center and TWP in Olla is a much larger privately operated local jail and transitional work program facility. Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena is a civil immigration detention center operated by GEO Group for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Those three settings mean the La Salle Parish inmate population cannot be read from one roster alone.
For current local custody, the official La Salle Parish Sheriff Inmate Search is the first route. For weekly booking summaries, the sheriff posts Weekly Arrests reports by date range. Sentenced state custody moves toward Louisiana VINE and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections locator path. Immigration custody at Pinehill Road is searched through ICE ODLS, not through the sheriff roster.
La Salle Parish Inmate Population Statistics
The best parish-level population figures in the research come from Vera Louisiana datasets, a 2022 PREA audit for La Salle Correctional Center and TWP, GEO's Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center page, and the Prison Policy Initiative prison-origin table. These sources do not all measure the same thing. Capacity is a bed or design figure. Pretrial population is a custody count. Prison-origin data counts people in state prison whose home parish is La Salle Parish, even when the person is held outside the parish.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| La Salle Parish Jail capacity | 29 | Vera facilities dataset; sheriff site did not publish capacity |
| La Salle Correctional Center capacity | 757 | 2022 PREA audit; Vera also lists 755 |
| La Salle Correctional Center audit population | 710 | 2022 PREA audit |
| Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center capacity | 1,160 | GEO facility page and Vera dataset |
| La Salle Parish 2021 total jail pretrial | 313 | Vera parish incarceration table |
| People in state prison from La Salle Parish | 78 | Prison Policy Initiative 2022 origin table |
The combined capacity figure above adds the three sourced facility capacities. It is not a current head count and should not be treated as a live occupancy number. Official current daily population for the Jena jail was not found on the sheriff site, and the La Salle Parish roster inspected during research returned current entries rather than a published census dashboard.
La Salle Parish Inmate Population Trends
Vera's pretrial trend file shows a long period of small pretrial counts followed by a sharp rise in the late 2010s and 2021. The research does not prove a single cause. In a parish with a small sheriff jail, a large correctional center, and contract or agency holds, a trend line can reflect booking volume, court timing, transfer practices, and facility use by more than one agency.
| Year | La Salle Pretrial Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 2 | Vera pretrial trend |
| 1999 | 26 | Vera pretrial trend |
| 2006 | 12 | Vera pretrial trend |
| 2013 | 8 | Vera pretrial trend |
| 2019 | 134 | Vera pretrial trend |
| 2021 | 313 | Vera pretrial trend; large increase from 2019 |
Prison admissions from La Salle Parish also moved across time. Vera lists 100 admissions in 2010, 99 in 2011, 58 in 2012, 79 in 2013, 91 in 2014, 104 in 2019, 49 in 2020, and 64 in 2021. That series speaks to state-prison flow after prosecution and sentencing, not only to people inside the parish jail on a given day.
Who Is in La Salle Parish Custody
The La Salle Parish inmate population includes different legal statuses. A person booked into La Salle Parish Jail may be a new arrestee, a pretrial detainee, a local hold, or someone booked by a surrounding local or state agency. A person at La Salle Correctional Center and TWP may be held for state or county correctional agencies or may be part of a transitional work program. A person at Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center is in civil immigration custody, which is separate from parish criminal prosecution.
- Pretrial
- Held after arrest while charges, bond, or court dates are pending.
- Sentenced custody
- Held after conviction or plea under a court sentence or state correctional authority.
- Detainer
- A hold from another agency that can block release even when local bond exists.
- TWP
- Transitional work program, a Louisiana custody setting tied to work-release style placement.
- ICE detainee
- A person held in civil immigration detention, not a parish jail inmate.
La Salle Parish Jail Capacity
The Vera facility row lists La Salle Parish Jail capacity at 29, but that number was not found on the sheriff's own site. The same research file lists La Salle Correctional Center capacity at 757 in a 2022 PREA audit and Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center capacity at 1,160 from GEO. Those figures show why a La Salle Parish inmate lookup must distinguish the small Jena booking jail from larger detention campuses in Olla and Jena.
Overcrowding could not be stated as a current sheriff-published fact from the available local sources. The safer public-record approach is to cite the dated source that gives the figure and identify whether the number is capacity, audit population, average daily population, or current roster count. A roster count may change by the hour. A PREA audit is a snapshot. A Vera dataset is compiled from state and local data fields.
Laws for La Salle Parish Jail Records
Louisiana law gives the public several routes to jail and booking information, but it also leaves room for exceptions. The sheriff roster is the fastest source for many current La Salle Parish jail records. If an online profile omits charges, bond, or booking-photo detail, a request to the sheriff's public-records contacts may be needed. Court records after prosecution are separate and should be checked through the 28th Judicial District Court or the clerk.
Key statutes:
Louisiana R.S. 44:1 defines public records, public bodies, and custodians for Louisiana public business records.
Louisiana R.S. 44:31 gives adults the right to inspect or copy public records unless an exception applies.
Louisiana R.S. 44:32 covers custodian duties and written denial timing when records are not produced.
Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure art. 228 requires booking records and states that booking books and summaries are open for public inspection.
Search the La Salle Parish Jail Roster
The official sheriff roster is an OCV app route backed by a public feed. Research found the page at lasalleso.com/inmateSearch and the feed behind it at the OCV inmate JSON route. The feed stores name fields, inmate ID, booked date, custody status code, demographics, and image objects. The current public samples were useful, but they were not full court records and did not show every charge or bond field populated.
- Open the sheriff Inmate Search page in a modern browser, since the page relies on JavaScript.
- Search or scroll for the person's last name, then compare the full display name and booked date.
- Open the profile and check inmate ID, demographic fields, custody status, and any visible charge or bond text.
- If the profile is thin, call the jail or Records & Bonds before assuming the person was released.
- If the person has been sentenced, transferred, or moved to immigration custody, switch to VINELink, BOP, or ICE ODLS.
The sheriff also posts Weekly Arrests reports. Research found recent reports for June 2026 and prior May 2026 date ranges. Those reports state that bookings may be made by the sheriff's office and surrounding local or state agencies and that suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The official La Salle Parish Sheriff Inmate Search route is the roster page tied to the sheriff's OCV platform.
The screenshot helps distinguish the parish sheriff roster from the statewide VINELink, BOP, and ICE search systems used for other custody types.
La Salle Parish Roster Search Fields
The static source did not expose a classic search form. It identified an app-rendered feed list. That matters because users may see a scrollable list or app controls rather than a simple first-name, last-name form. If the visible web page fails, the sheriff mobile app uses the same official platform and may be easier to use on a phone.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site search / page search | Text if rendered | Unspecified | OCV feed list controls were not extractable from static source. |
| Inmate list item | List or card | Not applicable | Results use title/name and booked date, then open into a profile. |
| Pagination / limit | Feed setting | Not applicable | The active feature config uses a limit of 10 per page or list view. |
| Sort/filter | App-rendered control | Unspecified | No official static field list was exposed. |
La Salle Parish Inmate Record Fields
A sampled La Salle Parish inmate profile is not the same as the case file. It can help confirm current custody, but formal court charges, dispositions, and judgments live with the court and clerk after prosecution begins. For custody detail, the local roster field inventory still gives a strong starting point.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Stored as title, first name, last name, and display name. |
| Inmate ID | Local numeric identifier in the public feed. |
| Booked date | Date and time value with Central time context. |
| Demographics | Height, weight, gender, race, age, eye color, and hair color in sampled records. |
| Mugshot image | Image object exists, but sampled records used placeholder images. |
| Charges / bond | Schema exists, but sampled public profiles did not show populated rows. |
La Salle Parish State and Federal Search
Louisiana DPS&C routes imprisoned-person lookup through VINELink. DPS&C says that offender information is updated every 24 hours and can be searched by location, name, and ID or case number. LA VINE also monitors adult inmates in parish jails and state prisons and offers phone, online, and notification options for custody changes.
| Custody Type | Search Route | Use It When |
|---|---|---|
| Local pretrial or booking custody | Sheriff Inmate Search | The arrest or booking is recent and tied to La Salle Parish Jail. |
| State sentenced custody | Louisiana VINE / DPS&C locator | The person has been sentenced or transferred to state custody. |
| Federal sentenced custody | BOP Inmate Locator | The person is a sentenced federal prisoner or has a BOP record. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | The person may be at Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center. |
For pretrial federal defendants, the U.S. Marshals Service does not provide a public jail locator. Federal court records, an attorney, or the detention facility contact route may be more useful than BOP until a person enters BOP custody.
La Salle Parish Detention Facilities
The facility list is central to La Salle Parish inmate search work because the parish contains three very different custody settings. The Jena jail is the local sheriff route. The Olla correctional center is a private local jail and TWP facility. The Pinehill Road center is ICE civil detention with an immigration court connection.
- La Salle Parish Jail holds parish arrestees, pretrial detainees, local holds, and recent bookings tied to the sheriff roster.
- La Salle Correctional Center and TWP houses state and county correctional or detention-agency inmates and a transitional work program population.
- Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center holds ICE detainees in civil immigration proceedings and connects to the EOIR LaSalle Immigration Court.
La Salle Parish App and Notifications
The official sheriff platform advertises the LaSalle Parish Sheriff's Office mobile app on Apple and Google stores. Research found the app from OCV, LLC on Google Play and the sheriff's office as seller on the Apple App Store. The same platform supports Contact Us, Submit A Tip, Inmate Search, Weekly Arrests, Most Wanted, Sex Offenders, News/Events, Victim Notification, and other public-safety routes.
The research did not confirm an app-only inmate lookup. The value of the app is mobile access and sheriff notices, while custody-change notification is still strongest through LA VINE. For readers tracking release or transfer, use LCLE's LA VINE program information and register through VINELink rather than relying only on a roster refresh.
La Salle Parish Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the La Salle Parish inmate population? No single live official parish census was found. Sourced figures include 313 jail pretrial people in Vera's 2021 table, 710 people at La Salle Correctional Center during its 2022 PREA audit, and 78 people in state prison from La Salle Parish in the Prison Policy Initiative 2022 origin table.
Where should a new arrest be searched first? Start with the sheriff Inmate Search and Weekly Arrests pages. If the record is missing or thin, call the jail at (318) 992-7358 or Records & Bonds at (318) 992-6976.
Does the sheriff roster cover ICE detainees? No. Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center is a civil immigration facility. Use ICE ODLS or the facility information line for immigration custody.
Can a released person still be found? Released-status retention was not documented in the sampled sheriff feed. Weekly arrest reports, public-records requests, court records, and VINELink may help when the current roster no longer lists the person.