Orleans Parish Jail

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The Orleans Parish Jail is located at 2735 Perdido Street in New Orleans, LA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Orleans Parish Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give info you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to others is much appreciated.

Orleans Parish Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Orleans Parish Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. You can get the same information for anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information more quickly if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Orleans Parish Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Orleans Parish Jail includes each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you must answer some basic questions, like what is your legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the faster you can get out of jail. It also depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge has to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Orleans Parish Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list information about each visitor to the Orleans Parish Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so call the jail at (504) 822-8000 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Orleans Parish Jail you have to first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Orleans Parish Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 Orleans Parish Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Orleans Parish Jail 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 Orleans Parish Jail. 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 Orleans Parish Jail 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 might have an outstanding warrant, you can access court records on the website or you can call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. 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 have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file that includes a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to the Orleans Parish Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Orleans Parish Jail jail inmates could change, so be sure to double check the Orleans Parish Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Orleans Parish Jail

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 Orleans Parish Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (504) 822-8000 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 Orleans Parish Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want 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 items that the inmate can buy if they have enough money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 Orleans Parish Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are usually more costly than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or totally denied.

Phone Number: (504) 822-8000

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all 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 Orleans Parish Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, 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 jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Orleans Parish Jail, click the link below.

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