Lafourche Parish Detention Center

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The Lafourche Parish Detention Center is located at 1500 West Thibodaux By-Pass Road in Thibodaux, LA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything one might want to know about the Lafourche Parish Detention Center, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information and tips that you’ll need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Lafourche Parish Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lafourche Parish Detention Center Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who are in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you are able to get information on anyone who has been arrested or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information faster if you enter their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Lafourche Parish Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center is made up of each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you have to answer some simple questions, such as what is your full name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you make a phone call in order to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged takes between 30 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you post bail, the faster you will get let go. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the release date, expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Lafourche Parish Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Lafourche Parish Detention Center in advance of any visit. This information will be put into a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor has to provide proof of identification. Any visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies can change, so we suggest that you call the facility at (985) 449-4458 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center you must first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Lafourche Parish Detention Center, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not related to the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Lafourche Parish Detention Center to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants online or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and any documents filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Lafourche Parish Detention Center jail inmates change frequently, so it would be best to double check the Lafourche Parish Detention Center website before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lafourche Parish Detention Center

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Lafourche Parish Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (985) 449-4458 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Lafourche Parish Detention Center store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products including soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Lafourche Parish Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are typically more costly than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Lafourche Parish Detention Center phone number is: (985) 449-4458

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Lafourche Parish Detention Center, click the link below.

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