Ouachita Parish Jail Roster
The parish-level jail and booking record custodian is the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office. OPSO handles parish arrests, warrants, jail records, and inmate booking documentation. The sheriff's main office is at 400 St. John Street in Monroe, and the main phone number is 318-329-1200. The current sheriff is Marc Mashaw, who OPSO identifies as sworn in on July 1, 2024. For records that are not visible through the public inmate inquiry or the sheriff app, the practical fallback is OPSO Records/Identification.
The local jail is Ouachita Correctional Center, listed in OPSO jail support materials at 4801 Highway 165 Bypass, Monroe, LA 71202. OPSO identifies the warden as Major Chris Jerkins. No official capacity figure was found in the inspected sources, so the jail facility details should be checked with OPSO before relying on bed-count claims. The roster is best used for local booking, custody, bond, and charge information. It does not replace the Clerk of Court's criminal case file, the Louisiana DPS&C state inmate locator, immigration custody tools, or federal court databases.
The OPSO Records/Identification page is important when a name search is incomplete. The division, led by Lieutenant Dayna Sampognaro, maintains offense reports, accident reports, warrants, inmate booking documentation, background checks, fingerprinting, public-records requests, and evidence tracking. Its phone number is 318-324-2630.
Search Ouachita Parish Inmates
The public web roster is the OPSO Inmate Inquiry. The sheriff's app page also states that the bookings page was being reconfigured and directs users to the Ouachita Sheriff App for the latest booking information. That means the web inquiry and the mobile app should be treated as companion channels, not as duplicates. If the web search is down, stale, or missing a recent booking, check the app and call OPSO Records/Identification.
- Open the OPSO Inmate Inquiry and start broad. A last name or partial name may be enough when spelling is uncertain.
- Use the subject number or booking number when that identifier is already known. These fields reduce name-match problems.
- Choose the in-custody option when the goal is a current jail roster check. Leave it open when older bookings may matter.
- Limit by booking date range or housing facility if the search returns too many names. The observed housing option is Ouachita Correctional Center.
- Open the inmate profile and compare the booking, bond, charge, court, and release fields against any court or DA record.
The official iOS listing for the Ouachita Sheriff app advertises inmate bookings, booking or release alerts by name and date of birth, active arrest warrants, most wanted information, alerts, tips, directory entries, locations, FAQs, links, and news. The app listing still includes older sheriff text, so current office leadership should come from OPSO's own site while app features should come from the app listing.
Ouachita Parish Inmate Search Fields
The OPSO inquiry accepts several search inputs. None of the observed fields is marked as strictly required, but a name, subject number, booking number, date range, or custody filter is needed to return useful records. The field mix supports both a quick jail roster search and a more exact booking lookup.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | No | Search by inmate name; use fewer letters if spelling is uncertain. |
| Subject Number | Text | No | Internal subject identifier for a person in the booking system. |
| Booking Number | Text | No | Best for a specific jail booking record. |
| In Custody | Checkbox | No | Limits results to people currently held. |
| Booking From Date | Date | No | Start of the booking-date range. |
| Booking To Date | Date | No | End of the booking-date range. |
| Housing Facility | Dropdown | No | Observed option: Ouachita Correctional Center. |
| Search / Clear | Button | N/A | Runs the search or clears all entries. |
Search results can show name, in-custody status, scheduled release date, race, gender, date of birth, and whether multiple bookings exist. A same-name result should not be treated as a match until the date of birth, booking date, and other identifiers are compared.
Ouachita Parish Booking Profiles
An OPSO booking profile is a custody record. It can be useful for locating a person, checking bond, and tying a charge to the right court, but it is not the final court outcome. The portal disclaimer says information is informational under Louisiana Public Records Law, may change quickly, may contain errors, and should not be used as the sole basis for legal action.
| Profile Area | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Demographics | Name, date of birth, gender, race, address, and aliases where shown. |
| Photos | Booking photo and timestamp when available. |
| Booking history | Booking number, booking date, release date, scheduled release date, housing facility, bond totals, bail totals, and booking origin. |
| Bond table | Bond number, bond type, amount, and status. |
| Court table | Charges, court date, and court name when listed. |
| Charges table | Charge description, counts, offense date, docket number, sentence date, disposition, sentence length, crime class, arresting agency, attempt or commit status, and bond. |
Use the docket number, charge text, and court field to move from a jail booking profile to the Clerk of Court or city-court record. For felony filings and some misdemeanor matters outside city jurisdiction, the district court criminal record is maintained through the Clerk of Court after the District Attorney files formal charges.
Ouachita Parish Jail Contacts
OPSO lists one main parish correctional facility for jail support services. Records questions, background checks, and booking-document requests may need OPSO Records/Identification instead of the jail lobby. Visitation, phone, money, and mail details are handled through separate official OPSO support pages and vendors.
Ouachita Correctional Center
4801 Highway 165 Bypass
Monroe, LA 71202
OPSO main: 318-329-1200
Current video visit schedule was not published in extracted official text.
OPSO Records/Identification
400 St. John Street
Monroe, LA 71201
318-324-2630
Booking records, public records requests, warrants, reports, background checks, and fingerprinting.
Custody Status and Notifications
The local roster covers parish jail custody. If a person has been sentenced to state custody, released to another agency, or moved after a court event, a local jail search may stop showing the current location. Louisiana DPS&C says family and friends can locate people in state custody through LAVNS/VINELink, which is updated every 24 hours and can be searched by location, name, and ID or case number. DPS&C also provides a phone locator at 225-383-4580 for callers with a DPS&C number or a name and date of birth.
The Louisiana DPS&C inmate information page is the state-custody route for housing assignment, facility address, facility contact phone, and projected release date where applicable. OPSO also links the VINELink Louisiana person search for custody-status and criminal-case notifications.
| Channel | Best Use | Update / Status Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OPSO Inmate Inquiry | Local jail bookings and current OCC custody. | Use with the app when the web bookings page is being reconfigured. |
| Ouachita Sheriff App | Latest bookings, release alerts, and warrant alerts by name/date of birth. | App-only features may be more current than the web page. |
| Louisiana DPS&C / LAVNS | State-sentenced custody and facility assignment. | DPS&C says LAVNS updates every 24 hours. |
| VINELink | Notification registration for custody and criminal-case status changes. | Useful after release, transfer, or case-status changes. |
Ouachita Parish Visitation Status
The OPSO video visitation page links English and Spanish instructions, a Get Started option, a brochure, and VINE notification resources. The extracted official text did not publish a weekly schedule, visit length, price, or dress code. Do not rely on a third-party schedule without checking OPSO or the vendor instructions first.
| Topic | Official Status | Action Before Visiting |
|---|---|---|
| Video visitation | OPSO provides vendor instructions and a Get Started link. | Use the official OPSO page before scheduling. |
| Published weekly schedule | Not located in extracted official text. | Confirm with OPSO or the video visit vendor. |
| Custody notifications | VINE/VINELink resources are linked by OPSO. | Register for alerts if release or transfer status matters. |
| In-person rules | No full rule set was captured in the extracted source. | Call OPSO before bringing visitors, bags, or documents. |
Note: A missing schedule in the extracted text is not proof that visits are unavailable; it means the current vendor page must be checked.
Contacting Ouachita Parish Inmates
OPSO says GTL/ViaPath provides the offender phone system at OCC. Two account types are described. AdvancePay funds calls from an inmate to a specific phone number. Inmate PIN Debit lets an inmate pay for calls to numbers allowed by the facility, which can help when friends or family cannot fund collect calls. OPSO links setup and payment resources from its phone page.
Mail is handled differently from older jail-mail systems. Since November 21, 2022, OCC no longer receives and processes offenders' non-legal mail on site, including mailed photographs. Non-legal mail is delivered in digital format through TextBehind. The mailing format is facility and state, inmate name and identifier, PO Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. The OPSO example uses "Ouachita Parish Correctional Center, LA" followed by the inmate name and ID. Do not send checks, money orders, or attorney-client privileged mail to the Phoenix address.
Books must be paperbacks, no more than two at a time, and must come from a publisher or bookstore. Used books are not allowed. Subscriptions for magazines and newspapers are restricted to subscription delivery, and sexually provocative material is prohibited under OPSO's published mail rules.
Ouachita Parish Inmate Funds
The OPSO trust-account page lists several deposit paths. ViaPath/ConnectNetwork deposits can be made online, by toll-free automated phone, or at lobby kiosks. Kiosks are located at OPSO, 400 St. John Street, Monroe, and at Ouachita Correctional Center, 4801 Highway 165 Bypass, Monroe. The automated deposit phone is 888-988-4768, customer service is 877-650-4249, and the ViaPath site ID is 249. Kiosks accept cash or credit/debit, while online and phone deposits use credit/debit. A convenience fee is shown before payment completion.
Correct Commissary is also available through Correct Solutions. OPSO lists Correct Solutions customer service at 877-618-3516, the online portal at csgpay.com, and facility ID 10004. Money orders are still accepted if completely filled out with the offender's State ID and all sender information. OPSO accepts U.S. Postal Service, Western Union, and MoneyGram money orders, but not direct deposit from MoneyGram or Western Union.
Local Jail vs Other Custody
Ouachita Parish inmate records can split across agencies after arrest. A person booked at OCC may later have a district court case, a state-prison transfer, a federal prosecution, or a federal inmate record. The local roster answers the jail-custody question. Court records answer what was filed, heard, or decided. State and federal custody tools answer where a sentenced or federally held person is located.
Registered sex-offender information is a separate public-safety channel, not a jail roster. OPSO links OffenderWatch for Ouachita Parish, and the sheriff's research notes that it can be searched by address radius for publishable registered offenders. Use it only for registry status, not for current OCC custody, bond, or booking data.
| Record Type | Source | What It Shows | What It Does Not Replace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local jail roster | OPSO / OCC | Booking, custody, bond, charges, court links, and release data where shown. | District court criminal case file or final disposition. |
| State inmate record | Louisiana DPS&C / LAVNS | State custody location, facility contact, and projected release where available. | OPSO booking details or city-court tickets. |
| Federal court record | U.S. District Court, PACER, CM/ECF | Federal case filings, docket entries, judgments, and appeals. | Parish jail roster or state prison locator. |
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana is one federal court source that can matter when a custody issue stems from a federal prosecution rather than a parish charge.
This source belongs after the local and state custody channels because federal court records answer a different question: whether a federal case, not an OPSO booking, controls the record path.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana is not a jail roster, but it can appear in federal record research when a person's name is checked across Western District systems.
Bankruptcy records should not be confused with custody records. They are included only as a separate federal court access point for name-based federal record checks.
Federal Inmate Record Channels
Federal custody and federal criminal dockets require different tools from OPSO. PACER is the federal case-access system, while CM/ECF is the electronic filing and docket system for federal courts. A person with a federal charge may still appear in local custody for a time, but the final court docket is not maintained by the parish clerk or the sheriff.
The PACER service center is the national federal court access portal for account registration and federal case searches.
PACER is useful when a name, federal case number, or federal district points away from Ouachita Parish's local booking system.
The Western District of Louisiana CM/ECF system is tied to federal electronic filing and docket access for that district.
Use CM/ECF and PACER for federal docket history, then use OPSO, DPS&C, or VINELink for custody status depending on where the person is held.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is the federal appellate court for Louisiana federal cases.
An appeal record may explain later docket activity, but it will not show current OCC housing or a parish bond amount.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana is the federal prosecution office for Western District cases.
A federal prosecution source can explain why a person appears in a federal docket even when the local jail roster no longer shows an active Ouachita Parish booking.